Many thanks for all your replies. Original question was:
> Does anyone out there have any idea why "rlogin" as root should prompt for a
> password despite /.rhosts on the remote machine having the local machine name,
> the local machine being in /etc/hosts and the file itself being owned by root
> with permissions 644?
The answer was that the remote machine saw the local one with a fully-qualified
host.domain name, rather than just the hostname. So the /.rhosts entry needed
to be changed from "hostname" to "hostname.domainname".
A lot of you asked why we are running backups as root rather than as an
unpriveleged user. Well, we are doing the latter now - the problem occurred on
a limited number of machines during an interim phase of moving between backup
systems.
Many thanks specifically to:
seanw@amgen.com (Sean Ward)
sf@ced.berkeley.edu
dmaccara@bank-banque-canada.ca (Donn MacCara)
tkevans@fallst.es.dupont.com (Tim Evans)
jna@concorde.com (J. Adams)
Mike Raffety <mike_raffety@il.us.swissbank.com>
sanford@lsil.com (Sanford Whitehouse)
Dan Stromberg - OAC-DCS <strombrg@bingy.acs.uci.edu>
Pat Max <pam@fimad1.lanl.gov>
kumeda@dt.wdc.com (Andy Kumeda
dcc@raleigh.ssds.com (Derrick Cole - Raleigh)
gdonl@gv.ssi1.com (Don Lewis)
bern@penthesilea.Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern)
wacec@filon.ml.com (Conrad Wace
David Lee <T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk>
J.H.N.Chin@reading.ac.uk
rad@getech.leeds.ac.uk
dennett@image.Kodak.COM (Charles R. Dennett)
Regards,
Garry
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Garry Perratt
Computer Applications Geophysicist Tel: +44 (0)483 752144
Phillips Petroleum Company United Kingdom Ltd. Fax: +44 (0)483 752917
Phillips Quadrant
35 Guildford Road Email: gcp@ppco.com
Woking GU22 7QT
UK
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