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

[Tom Harincar]

>Long time lurker, first time poster....
>
>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...
>
>I get prompted for a password, but it never takes...   what gives?
>
Hope I'm not tellling you something you already know but this sounds like
you are trying to rlogin while you are currently logged in as root - it
won't work.... You have to rlogin as an ordinary user and su to root.

Tom Harincar <tomh at netzero.com>



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