rdist command "Permission denied."

[Greg Bradner]

Add it to ~root/.rhosts
You can check your messages file to see what pam auth is requiring.

Jul  6 11:40:50 HOST pam_rhosts_auth[23760]: denied to 
root at HOST.domain.com as root: access not allowed
Jul  6 11:40:50 HOST in.rshd[23760]: rsh denied to root at HOST.domain.com 
as root: Permission denied.
Jul  6 11:40:50 HOST in.rshd[23760]: rsh command was 'rdistd -S'
Jul  6 11:40:50 HOST rdist[23757]: HOST: LOCAL ERROR: Unexpected input 
from server: "Permission denied.".

Nguyen, Long P (Mission Systems) wrote:

>I am trying to rdist locally as root from one path to another to retain all files and links on a redhat machine.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rigler, Steve
>Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 1:35 PM
>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>Subject: RE: rdist command "Permission denied."
>
>
>You'll probably need to provide a little more info.
>
>>From the information about /etc/hosts.equiv I'd assume you're
>attempting to rdist via rsh, but you didn't really say.  If
>you are, then are you attempting this as root and what platform
>is seahawk?
>
>-Steve 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Nguyen, Long P
>(Mission Systems)
>Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:46 AM
>To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>Subject: rdist command "Permission denied."
>
>When I try to use 'rdist' I get this error:
>
>seahawk: updating host seahawk
>seahawk: LOCAL ERROR: Unexpected input from server: "Permission
>denied.".
>seahawk: updating of seahawk finished
>
>I have the hostname entry in the /etc/hosts.equiv file.
>
>
>  
>

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