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Date:      Mon, 15 Feb 1999 12:21:52 -0600 (CST)
From:      Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ta1@navrules.com
Subject:   Re: rsh problems
Message-ID:  <199902151821.MAA20519@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu>
In-Reply-To: <36C863B7.4649DF7E@navrules.com>

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> Hi all,
>
> We have a cluster of servers running FreeBSD 2.2.5 and 2.2.6.  All of
> these servers have the identical account set up on them (same username &
> password).  As part of an automated process a database is copied from
> one server to all the others using a combination of rsh and rcp. 
> Everything has been working great on this cluster for 6+ months now.
>
> We have just set up a similar cluster running FreeBSD 2.2.7 and have set
> up the same account on all these servers.  When we try to run this
> automated process to copy files between these servers we get a "Login
> incorrect" error.  Two of us have now gone through everything we can
> think of to try to track this down.  We've checked the $HOME/.rhosts
> file & verified its permissions, verified that rshd isn't commented out
> in /etc/inetd.conf on each target server, verified the account usernames
> & passwords, and tried just about everything but take a sledgehammer to
> the servers....
>
> Can anybody think of what we might have missed?  Are there any issues
> with rsh & rshd on FreeBSD 2.2.7?  Any suggestions would be GREATLY
> appreciated! 
>
> -Bruce
>
How are your DNS settings? I know rshd tries to resolve the ip from the
client before letting it in... if it doesn't resolve... well...

Regards,

-oscar



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