Re: hostname problems again

Andreas Johansson (ajo@wopr.campus.luth.se)
Wed, 30 Oct 1996 00:52:44 +0100 (MET)

> Unfortunately I experience a silly hostname problem on our Linux AXP
> box again (Red Hat 4.0 based):
>
> If I am logged into a Linux Intel box
>
> [markus@pople:markus ]$ uname -a
> Linux pople.pc.uni-koeln.de 2.0.20 #5 Wed Sep 18 16:04:57
>
> and rlogin to the AXP machine
>
>
> [markus@pople:markus ]$ rlogin franck
> Password:
> Last login: Tue Oct 29 23:51:37 from teller
>
> [markus@franck markus]$ w
> 11:52pm up 1 day, 8:56, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00
> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
> markus ttyp0 teller 11:52pm 0.00s 0.00s ? -
>
>
> it seems as if I am coming from a complet different machine (teller)
> which is not the case. I have a /etc/nsswitch.conf file with the
> content someone posted on this list some time ago.

Is this teller machine the last one in your .rhosts file? This happened
to me a while, but since I upgraded NetKit-B it works.

> The DNS records are OK, I checked them many times.
>
> The .rhosts based authentification is not functional which is quite
> annoying. ssh authentification in contrast works without a problem.

chmod 600 .rhosts if you haven't already done this.

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