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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!192.239.17.140!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.utell.co.uk!usenet From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: "ppp -alias" and rlogin permissions? Date: 13 May 1997 09:36:48 GMT Organization: Awfulhak Ltd. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5l9cng$9lp@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> References: <d2ohajsbe1.fsf@erlang.ericsson.se> <86u3kawxa4.fsf@bitbox.follo.net> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: shift.utell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40786 In article <86u3kawxa4.fsf@bitbox.follo.net>, Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> writes: > In article <d2ohajsbe1.fsf@erlang.ericsson.se> Kent Boortz <kent@erlang.ericsson.se> writes: > >> >> >> I have ppp and IP nat/aliasing/masquerading working but I'm puzzled by >> a small problem. I have the same user ID on the remote and local >> machine. When I connect with "ppp" I can directly do a "rlogin >> remotehostname" but when I connect with "ppp -alias" and try to do a >> "rlogin" I get a "rlogind: Permission denied.". I can still do >> telnet/ftp/whatever but not "rlogin"!? >> >> Is this the way it is supposed to be? If not, what can I do to find >> the problem and solve it? > > The problem is that RPC needs to be run from port 20, and -alias > change the port numbers by default. The latest version of > PPP+pktAlias handles this, and will likely be integrated in FreeBSD > -current reasonably soon. Until then, download it from > http://www.srv.net/~cmott/ > > I don't remember whether I enabled the mapping of the port to the same > values as default; check the README.alias file. The natd port (version 1.4) does this nicely too (it uses a more recent version of the alias code). Check the man page. > Eivind. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org> <http://www.awfulhak.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !