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Brett Taylor <brett.taylor@capgemini.co.uk> wrote:
: I have a closed network and wish to allow the root user access to all boxes.
: I know that this is not usually advisable but I am the only administrator
: and the network is not of critical importance so security is not a major
: issue.  In trying to set up 'trust' between the machines I have created a
: .rhosts file in all of the root home directories.  This file contains all of
: the hostnames on my network - why can I not, therefore, access all of the
: machines??  It is very bizarre, in that it will allow me to connect to some
: machines seamlessly whilst still requests a password for others.  Any
: ideas?? (I'm running DNS on an NT server but have still kept the files
: option on all machines - subsequently I have all the hostnames/IP addresses
: up to date in /etc/hosts.  I am NOT running NIS)

Make sure the .rhosts has permissions 600 and is owned by root.  
You may also have hit a mismatch of short hostnames VS FQDN depending
on if your systems look at /etc/hosts or DNS first.   
Also make sure .rhosts is in the right place (often /root/.rhosts
or /.rhosts depending on flavour).

Matt

PS - why is DNS running onan NT machine if you have all these UN*X boxes
around?!