Moo,

Are you using multiple/stacked ip/adresses on the SUN servers (multipathing
!?) ? If so, then try adding all the ip-adresses or their aliases in the
..rhosts file of a linux box.

cheers,

Harrie


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> Hi -- I have two SUN servers and many linux clients.
> I have added a few of the hosts in my .rhosts file, that includes both
> the SUn servers and a few linux clients -- so as understood I can rsh
> from any of these systems without being prompted for passwd to any
> other machines. This works fine if I
>
> 1. Login from linux to linux clients
> 2. Sun to Sun machines
> 3. Sun to linux machines
>
> But when I rsh from 'linux machines that are in .rhosts to any of the
> Sun servers' it prompts for a password.
> I have no clue why there is a problem. Is it that SUN or linux
> systems needs any specific 'pam' library.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> regards
> -Moo