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Date:      Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:32:41 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      alex fuchsstadt <afuchs@totum.plaut.de>
To:        Jose Monteiro <jose.monteiro@co.telenet.pt>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Rlogin from win95 to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970624142550.3310B-100000@totum.plaut.de>
In-Reply-To: <33af9ea4.6798229@mail.co.telenet.pt>

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On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jose Monteiro wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a problem with rlogin.
> 
> 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
> 
> but when i use a Rlogin client (crt) to login, it always ask me for
> the password.
> 
> can anyone help?
> 
Check permissons on file .rhost, rlogin works without asking for
password with -rw------- (600).

like "man rhosts" says:
....
For security reasons, a users .rhosts file will be ignored if it is not a 
regular file, or if it is not owned by the user, or if it is writable by
anyone other than the user.


Alexander Fuchsstadt
--------------------
R/3-Basis
Plaut Software GmbH



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