[svlug] rsh for root and passwds

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya guys/gals...

first off...nice talk David....very entertaining and informative...

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and now my puzzle..

just am wondering.... donno how many of you cut and paste
passwd entries for users into /etc/passwd file on various
linux machine

grep user /Net/*/etc/passwd
	( same user...same passwd on all linux machines )

	/Net/mach1/etc/passwd:user:aIoYV1U4O8ia2:...	rh5.1
	/Net/mach2/etc/passwd:user:aIoYV1U4O8ia2:...	rh5.0 <<--
	/Net/mach3/etc/passwd:user:kM9lU5uJWMaD.:...	rh4.2
	/Net/mach4/etc/passwd:user:aIoYV1U4O8ia2:...	rh5.0
	/Net/mach5/etc/passwd:user:zEKp649bnM/vw:...	rh5.0 <<--
	/Net/mach6/etc/passwd:user:aIoYV1U4O8ia2:...	rh5.1
		                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

never noticed it different etc...since it all worked...
- always cut-n-pasted from rh4.2 master machine to the distribution machine
  and manually, or rdist/rcp, etc to the workstations
	( since it works...have not attepted to cut and paste
	( the passwd string to the other machine yet

and no...don't even think of yp/nis...yuk.... thou the above is just as yukky..

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and another hummm.....time for another pair of eyes or brains...

AnyLinuxMachine~#  rsh AnyOtherMachine -l user date
	 ** works from any machine to all other machines/version  **

AnyLinuxMachine~#  rsh AnyOtherMachine -l root date
	 fails only on redhat 4.2 machines as root...and works on rh-5.0, rh-5.1

I checked ~user/.rhosts and ~root/.rhosts, /etc/host.equiv, /etc/securetty
	( I don't use /etc/hosts.equiv )

AnyLinuxMachine:~# ls -la /Net/*/root/.rhosts
	-r--------   1 root     root          586 Aug  4 23:13 /Net/mach1/root/.rhosts
	-r--------   1 root     root          586 Aug  4 23:13 /Net/mach2/root/.rhosts
	-r--------   1 root     root          586 Aug  4 23:17 /Net/mach3/root/.rhosts
	-r--------   1 root     root          586 Aug  4 23:13 /Net/mach4/root/.rhosts
	-r--------   1 root     root          586 Aug  4 23:17 /Net/mach5/root/.rhosts
	-r--------   1 root     root          586 Aug  4 23:17 /Net/mach6/root/.rhosts

thanx
alvin

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