From: Tom Goodale <g00dale@aei-potsdam.mpg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: Re: rsh problem : pvm3.4 / redhat5.2
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 17:39:27 +0200
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik
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Briole Sylvain wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am using pvm3.4 on my debian workstations at home,
> but I would like to use it at school where I have a
> better and bigger cluster....
> 
> But I am not root here and the file /etc/hosts.equiv
> doesn't mention any computer of the network....:-(
> So I can't rlogin without typing my password and
> pvm doesn't like it.... I have read I can specify
> options in my hostfile to do ask for my password but
> I didn't manage to do so....
> 
> If anyone can help me....
> 
> I thank you in advance....
> 
> Sylvain.
> 
> --
> Sylvain Briole (aka Eclice sur IRC / supaero)
> Lille - Nord - France
> EMail InterNet : p2014@isen.fr / sybriole@nordnet.fr

You can use a .rhosts file in your home directory.  It is of the form
hostname username

and should have permissions 600 .

Tom