rlogin demands password: the answer

[Roy Smith]

	A few days ago, I asked why my MtXinu 4.3BSD/NFS vax had suddenly
started demanding passwords for rlogins.  The answer turned out to be the
new /etc/hosts file I had just installed.  The host I was rlogging-in from
had an entry in /etc/hosts which listed the fully qualified domain name
first, but /etc/hosts.equiv just had the first (least significant) part.
Changing /etc/hosts to have the simple name first solved the problem.  I
would guess that changing /etc/hosts.equiv to have the FQDN would have
worked too.
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Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
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