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From: bill@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: rlogind: Remote login has been disabled by the administrator.
References: <9gbs6u$n7s$1@perki.connect.com.au> 
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 04:03:12 GMT

In article <9gbs6u$n7s$1@perki.connect.com.au>,
Stuart J. Browne <stuart@promed.com.au> wrote:

>This one has got me stumped.  I'm the second person to look at this, and
>it's driving me batty :)

>A pair of machines, both brand new, and with the same software/patches:

>SCO:Unix::5.0.6Ga  rs506a.Unix506.1.0a  usb.Unix506.1.0a

....

>Now. I've tried these with and with the 'user' name in the
>/.rhosts, to no effect. Given the frustration of the password
>asking, I added '-X' to /etc/inetd.conf for the 'rlogind'. After
>that, it continually spits out "rlogind: Remote login has been
>disabled by the administrator.".

>("login   stream  tcp     nowait  NOLUID  /etc/rlogind    rlogind -X" for
>the record).

That's the problem.  -X.  try   man rlogind

The man page is WRONG!!!!  It documents -X as issuing a message
of "Authentication is required on host: hostname

Perform 'strings rlogind' and you will see that the message
indicated by the man page does not exist, while the 'disabled ..'
message does exist.

>I was wondering if anybody else has experienced problems with
>this under RS506a. (Note: no, i've not tried without the RS.
>Unfortunately, the machines are a few thousand KM's away, and I
>don't like the thought of removing RS506a and putting it back on
>when they haven't even been installed a week!).

Well my RS506A was almost 2 feet away from this machine so it was
easy to test :-)   I put in -X and get the message you got.

>Umm.. Help? :)

Was that enough help?

>thanks.

You're welcome.

I'll let you notify TPTB of the error. 


-- 
Bill Vermillion -   bv @ wjv . com

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