What the hell is the matter with you? You get someone trying to help you and you give them shit. I assumed you had the machine on an off-net network address (192.168.*.*, 10.*.*.*, etc) in which case if you post your IP information there isn't a damn thing anyone can do with it. Even with a public IP there is nothing anyone can do with it as long as your system is secure. But *I* certainly wouldn't post it on this message board if it is a public address.
I was going to take you through some trouble-shooting procedures but since you obviously do not need any help then we will leave it at that. If you *do* have a private network (off-net addresses) I would get it working there first. I assume the interface is up and you have an IP address bound to it (ifconfig will give you that answer). Use the "netstat -rn" command to determine if your routing is set up properly. Can you ping the IP address that is bound to the ethernet card (*not* 127.0.0.1, and *not* the host name)?
And by the way, by your attempt at describing how to create a .rhosts file I can tell you aren't very familiar with UNIX. Are you sure you are not an MCSE?
You don't have to "touch" a file before editing it and if you don't change the permissions to owner only then it won't be used. And of course you have to have rshd up in your inetd.conf. This would have been easier:
echo + > ~/.rhosts; chmod go= ~/.rhosts
Ok, I have my .rhosts all set up for you to log in to my machine as root. My IP address is 10.10.0.49. Come and get me.
[ March 03, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
