Hello all, any help appreciated Authentication via .rhosts doesnt work for me when .rhosts contains <+@netgroup> The access is denied. as soon as .rhosts uses hostname username rsh works without password. I need to do the rsh via tha syntax. Do you have Tips ? Here are my entries from /etc/pam.d grep rhosts * rlogin:auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so promiscuous debug rsh:auth required /lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so debug promiscuous that is what i want my .rhosts to be (works on any unix) +@my-hosts-admin +@my-users-admin here is my log: Aug 9 14:17:43 it05 in.rlogind[256]: connect from 10.123.45.678 (10.123.45.678 ) Aug 9 14:17:43 it05 pam_rhosts_auth[256]: denied to myaccount@host.domain.de as service: access not allowed Aug 9 14:17:45 it05 in.rlogind[256]: PAM authentication failed for in.rlogind Aug 9 14:17:46 it05login: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM host.domain.de FOR service, Conversation error Aug 9 14:18:09 it05 in.rlogind[259]: connect from 10.123.45.678 (10.123.45.678 ) Aug 9 14:18:09 it05 pam_rhosts_auth[259]: not allowed to account as service Aug 9 14:22:46 it05 in.rlogind[282]: connect from 10.199.33.215 (10.199.33.215) Aug 9 14:22:47 it05 rlogind[282]: PAM authentication failed for in.rlogind Aug 9 14:22:49 it05 login: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM myhost FOR service, Authentication failure thanks for your help Micha