Establishing user equivalence

User equivalence allows a user to use rlogin to log in to an equivalent account on another host without entering a password. SCOadmin managers require this equivalence to allow you to manage other systems over the network. You can establish user equivalence between:

• individual remote/local account pairs by using the User Equivalence Manager to alter a user's $HOME/.rhosts file to add the remote host and account.

• a remote account and all local accounts except root (and other non-individual accounts such as bin), by editing /etc/hosts.equiv to add the remote host and account.

• all accounts on a remote host and all local accounts except root (and other non-individual accounts) by editing /etc/hosts.equiv to add only the remote host name.

If there are entries in both .rhosts and /etc/hosts.equiv for the same host or host/account combination, then the entry from /etc/hosts.equiv determines the extent of user equivalence. For more information, see the manual page for rhosts(SFF).