Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Sergio Henrique Guerra de Sousa <shgs@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: SOLVED Re: Problem adding hosts using Linux
Organization: Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Date: 14 Aug 1998 19:38:49 -0300
Message-ID: <ypyy3eazkx3a.fsf@pacu.dsee.fee.unicamp.br>

Hi Fran,

"Francis R. Roberts Jr." <robertsf@rl.af.mil> writes:
> [...] I am still curious as to why the .rhosts was largely
> ineffective while the hosts.equiv works fine.  Seems in this instance to be
> a Linux-only problem...

   The ~/.rhosts file can be a security breach when not correctly
configured by the user. Some systems, linux included, block the
use of these files for authentication. Of course this is configurable, 
maybe your linux distribution is set up with some extra security
measures and that's why setting ~/.rhosts did not work. Check the
.rhosts and the hosts.equiv man page for more info on details of your
system: man rhosts or man hosts.equiv.

Nice reading,
Sergio Sousa