Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:14:12 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: rhosts and FreeBSD 4.0 Message-ID: <38D7CA04.5FABF3D2@wmptl.com>
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I have been using a machine on an internal LAN to do tape backups for another. Both machines were running FreeBSD 3.4. When I recently upgraded the machine with the tape backup drive attached to it, the backups no longer function. The configuration is as follows: Machine One: -requires the ability to 'tar cvzf machine-two:/dev/rsa0 /' Machine Two: -used to allow machine one, (via an entry from /root/.rhosts), to perform it's backups remotely -recently upgraded from 3.4 to 4.0 -RELEASE -no reports errors that authentication failed -/etc/pam.conf says rhosts is broken I understand rhosts is not a 'secure' way of doing things, and that it posses some serious problems; but it worked. The bottom line is that it worked, and never caused any problems along the way. I am not opposed to trying a different method if need be, but to be completely honest I'm not sure what that different way should be? Any ideas, comments, suggestions, or otherwise are greatly appreciated. Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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