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rlogin .rhosts rhosts user equivalency

From: "James R. Sullivan" <jim@tarantella.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: Telnet Auto Login
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 08:31:10 -0700
Message-ID: <3BBB2F3E.FF9564CC@tarantella.com> 
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Serge Bromow wrote:
> 
> "Matt Schalit" <mschalit@pacbell.net> wrote in message
> news:3bb8a307.2827601@news.sf.sbcglobal.net...
> 
> >    User equivalence exists on a network when the following
> >    occurs on _all_ computers on that network:
> >
> >       a given user has the same username, UID, and password
> >       a given user belongs to the same groups
> >       a given group has the same GID
> >
> >    This enables all users to have transparent access no matter
> >    what terminal they sit down at.  It also enables users to
> >    utilize commands such as 'rlogin.'
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This may be part of my problem.
> Since I am talking between SCO & Linux
> the UID & GID are unlikely to be the same
> for an equiv user name and password.

Don't think the user's uid/gid matter.  Make sure you have
both the short machine name and the FQDN in the .rhosts file.
For instance, coming from a SUN machine (carmel.sclab.tarantella.com)
to a OSR5 machine (jupiter.beyond.tarantella.com), the .rhost file:

carmel
carmel.sclab.tarantella.com

works (no password prompt), while an .rhost file with just "carmel" 
doesn't.  I've always included both forms of machine names in my
.rhost files, cause sometimes you need them :-)

oh, my uid/gid on the two systems is completely different.

--
Jim Sullivan
Director, North American System Engineers
Tarantella!  http://www.tarantella.com
831 427 7384 - jim@tarantella.com
 

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