Subject: Linking /usr/local/etc/imapd to /etc/rimapd

From: [email-masked] (Trey Harris)
Date: 27 Nov 1994 06:42:12 GMT

Per the instructions in the Pine reference manual, I've symlinked 
/usr/local/etc/imapd to /etc/rimapd in order to enable local 
authentication of IMAP use.

However, when I run Pine on the machine on which the imapd is running, 
I'm still prompted to type in my name and password.

How can I make it run right?  I'm runnig AIX 3.2.5 on a cluster of IBM 
RS/6000 R20s.
-- 
Trey Harris                              http://sunsite.unc.edu/harris
  System Administrator, Project Isis, Office of Information Technology
                       The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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From: [email-masked] (Barry Bouwsma)
Date: 28 Nov 1994 10:44:52 GMT

>I'm still prompted to type in my name and password.

    Pine tries with rsh to exec /etc/rimapd.  Are you able to rsh other
commands from your login without getting "Permission denied", or to
rlogin without being prompted for a password?

    If not, then you need to take steps to allow rsh to succeed -- check
the man page, although the easiest way might be to create an .rhosts
file with your host and username in your home directory on the IMAP
server, or an /etc/hosts.equiv to permit access for many users in a
distributed environment.

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