Re: rshd authentication

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 01:10:02PM +0530, Anagani, Suresh wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having problem with rsh authentication.
> I have cygwin installed on windows 2000 machine called raindeer.
> And inet utils version is 1.3.2-19
> 
> This is my hosts.equiv file contents...
> 
> anaganis@RAINDEER /usr/doc/Cygwin
> $ cat /etc/hosts.equiv
> raindeer
> 
> I tested from a CMD on raindeer.. rsh commands work without prompting for
> password. 
> But it prompts for password if I do rlogin. Can someone tell me what am I
> missing here?

rlogin/rsh always ask for the password on interactive login.

Corinna

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