From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 23:39:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F18037BFB0 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:39:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e7B6dGn07849; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:39:17 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3991E2CF.1F179EFD@nexprise.com> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:39:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: David Thiel Subject: RE: root login over rsh? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Aug-00 David Thiel wrote: > This will sound like an exceedingly silly question, but how can I allow > root logins over rsh? I want to just do a minimal install and then use > rdist from another machine to put the rest of the stuff there, but sshd > doesn't appear to work with just a minimal install(i.e., there's no > binaries for it). > Apart from leaving aside the security implications, you will have to edit /root/.rhosts in the system you are trying to rsh into: from-machine root This will allow you to connect from the machine 'from-machine' as root. I belive you also can use * (or was it * *?) to allow anything (it would be faster to type:) /Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message