Question about rsh and passwords

[James Cameron]

>>>>> On 8 Jun 91 19:57:31 GMT, 6600bori at ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Boris Burtin) said:

|> I've been trying to use rsh to read a tape drive located on another machine
|> on the network.  The problem is that if there is a password assigned to the
|> root on the other machine, I get "Permission Denied."  If I remove the root
|> password, it works fine.  The question is--is there any way to avoid this,
|> or to give rsh a password to use?  I couldn't figure this one out from 
|> reading the man page...
|> 		- Boris Burtin
|> 		(6600bori at ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu)


	What you need to do is to have a file /.rhosts on the machine 
	with the tape drive which looks like this:

machine.first.edu   root

	That should solve your problems.  *8-)  Take a look 
	at man hosts.equiv(5)

jc

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