[ale] trusted host

[Neil Bright]

Chris Coleman wrote the following:
 
> I'm using Redhat Linux 6.0 and is trying to establish trust between two
> machines. If I create a .rhosts file in my home directory on the remote
> machine and try to rlogin to the machine, it prompts me for my password. The
> only way I found to remove the password prompt is to create /etc/hosts.equiv
> with the name of the server I want to trust. But this causes all users from
> the remote machine to be allowed to rlogin without a password.
 
Have a look at the file permissions on your .rhosts file.  Some rshd's 
are smart enough not to work if it has group or write permissions.

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