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Hi all,

I manage a pair of equivalent (in the /etc/hosts.equiv sense) Irises. (All
the files and accounts I'll mention are identical on both by way of NFS or
rdist.) I've made a second root account for myself like so

dcs-root:snip:0:0:Dave Schweisguth:/usr/people/dcs:/usr/local/bin/tcsh

so that I can use my personal account with tcsh, aliases, etc. for admin and
leave the regular root account (with shell=/bin/csh and homedir=/, the SGI
defaults) as a backup in case NFS dies and I lose tcsh.

This is fine, but if I'm dcs-root on one machine and I rsh to the other, I
get the original (wrong shell and homedir) root account. If I'm dcs-root and
I "rsh dcs-root@foo" to the other, I need to provide my password. Either
way, it's obnoxious.

/etc/hosts.equiv presently contains "localhost" and the two Irises in
question, and /.rhosts lets in "root" from either machine. Adding "dcs-root"
to /.rhosts doesn't help. Adding it to my own ~/.rhosts (and chown'ing
~/.rhosts to root.sys) makes "rsh dcs-root@foo" work from either machine, but
also from the other non-trusted machines which I also need in my ~/.rhosts.

Can anyone think of a way to have my access and secure it too?

TIA,

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