[svlug] AArrrrgh.... can't rlogin!

[Marc MERLIN]

On 9 Nov 1998 11:19:51 -0800, Will_Francis at amat.com <Will_Francis at amat.com> wrote:
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>Long time lurker, first time poster....
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>I've loaded RH 5.1 up on 3 boxes here at work, but I can't rlogin into them
>remotely.  I can't even have it rlogin into itself.  I did the usual
>.rhosts, even hosts.equiv, checked the /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny, but
>nothing is fishy here.  I can't even rlogin from my SGI and Sun machines...

Look for failure messages in syslog. PAM will for instance ignore an .rhosts
file if it's writable by group.
Also, it may not work for root (don't remember sinceI use ssh and haven't
used rlogin in more than 2 years).

Marc
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