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I'm attempting to build a beowulf cluster.  After reading various docs and
HOWTOs, I've decided that it would be best if the client nodes did a remote
boot off of the server node.  I downloaded <a href="ltsp.org">LTSP</a> and
it works fine (ie the clients boot fine).  The parallel libraries I am
using (MPI and <a href="lindaspaces.com">LINDA</a>) require rsh access to
the clients without a password.  I can RSH to the clients using a password
at the present, but I can't quite do it without a pw.  I tried to RTFM on
hosts.equiv, but however I did it, it wasn't right.  Here's how the system
looks:

Server
------
hostname: fw
IP: 192.168.0.254

Clients
-------
hostname: node1         hostname: node2         hostname: node3         hostname: node4
IP: 192.168.0.1         IP: 192.168.0.2         IP: 192.168.0.3         IP: 192.168.0.4

/etc/hosts.equiv looks like this:
node1 *
node2 *
node3 *
node4 *

Any ideas?

Quote:> The parallel libraries I am
> using (MPI and <a href="lindaspaces.com">LINDA</a>) require rsh access to
> the clients without a password.  I can RSH to the clients using a password
> at the present, but I can't quite do it without a pw.  I tried to RTFM on
> hosts.equiv, but however I did it, it wasn't right.
[...]
> /etc/hosts.equiv looks like this:
> node1 *
> node2 *
> node3 *
> node4 *

> Any ideas?

It would be best if you convert to an ssh mode of access, but without
knowing more about your specific setup here's what you need to do.

~/.rhosts is required, and it must be chmod 600. rhosts(5) was indicated in
the hosts.equiv man page in the "SEE ALSO" section, and one shouldn't ignore
such things.

Also in your /etc/hosts.equiv, you should use a FQDN for some minimal
security. "*" is not a valid user, and I've never known any hosts.equiv
implementation in any *nix OS to support wild cards in that file. If you
want to allow all users, just list the FQDN.

        tony

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They're trusted machines on a local network, but I would use SSH if I could.

Quote:

> ~/.rhosts is required, and it must be chmod 600. rhosts(5) was indicated
> in the hosts.equiv man page in the "SEE ALSO" section, and one shouldn't
> ignore such things.

I was under the impression that .rhosts overrules any rules found in
/etc/hosts.equiv .

Quote:

> Also in your /etc/hosts.equiv, you should use a FQDN for some minimal
> security. "*" is not a valid user, and I've never known any hosts.equiv
> implementation in any *nix OS to support wild cards in that file. If you
> want to allow all users, just list the FQDN.

So my /etc/hosts.equiv should look like:

node1 USER1 USER2 USER3...
.
.
.

?

Also, I'm confused as to whether this will allow the server to RSH to the
nodes without a password, or if only the nodes can RSH to the server
without a password.  Sorry if this is too much of a newbie question, but
the man pages didn't seem to help.

Quote:

>         tony

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