From: Roger Binns (rogerb@x.co.uk)
Date: 09/29/93


From: rogerb@x.co.uk (Roger Binns)
Subject: Re: cannot pipe to lpr
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:10:10 GMT

Werner Gold (gold@wpfx01.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de) wrote:
: If I do "rlogin linuxbox" it requests a password, even though I set up
: a .rhosts file.

Several machines (all should) check the permissions on the .rhosts file.
Make sure it is only readable by the owner (ie r--------). You may
ALSO have to add the foreign host to linux's /etc/hosts.equiv.
Note that sometimes you have to give full domain names and userids in these
files.

Roger