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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: rlogin for root oddness Date: 23 Oct 1996 12:06:40 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 17 Sender: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <54ku80$dp@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <54j07m$bav@news.ox.ac.uk> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: anorak.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 In article <54j07m$bav@news.ox.ac.uk>, Neil Long <neil.long@materials.oxford.ac.uk> writes: : Hi : Has anyone found that root cannot rlogin to a FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE system : but can to a FreeBSD 2.2-961014-SNAP system. : : I have checked and re-checked the ~root/.rhosts files for syntax, : permissions, location, etc. Works ok for me ! Is your /root/.rhosts owned by root and only writable by its owner ? -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... .