Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:54:58 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> To: jose.monteiro@co.telenet.pt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Rlogin from win95 to FreeBSD Message-ID: <19970624145458.10866@mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <33af9ea4.6798229@mail.co.telenet.pt>; from Jose Monteiro on Tue, Jun 24, 1997 at 10:22:20AM %2B0000 References: <33af9ea4.6798229@mail.co.telenet.pt>
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On Jun 24, Jose Monteiro <jose.monteiro@co.telenet.pt> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a problem with rlogin. This is not appropriate for the -hackers list, I have redirected the CC: to -questions for that reason. > I want to be able to login from Win95 to a FreeBSD box, without using > password, so, I've made the necessary arrangements in $HOME/.rhosts > like this: > > bsd.host.i.want username Please make this: Win95.Host username > but when i use a Rlogin client (crt) to login, it always ask me for > the password. and make sure, that the rlogin client actually uses that "username" as the name of the **requesting** user! You should also make sure, that the .rhosts file has been protected against access by anybody except yourself, i.e. perform a "chmod 600 ~/.rhosts" ... Regards, STefanhelp
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