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From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-11 17:14:01


On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 GosselinA_at_[hidden] wrote:

> I compiler lam-mpi 7.0 with "--with-rsh=ssh" to use ssh as the default.
> But sometimes I would like to revert to "rsh" to boot.
>
> If I do "export LAMRSH=rsh" , lamboot connects using rsh as expected,
> using ".rhosts" files on my nodes.

Good.

> But if I try this:
>
> % lamboot -v -ssi boot_rsh_agent rsh hostfile
>
> lamboot proceeds as if ssh was still my agent (asking for pass phrases
> for ex. if no ssh-agent has been loaded with my private key).

Can you look at the output of "lamboot -d -ssi boot_rsh_agent rsh
hostfile"? That should tell you what LAM is running as its underlying
remote agent command. I just tried "-ssi boot_rsh_agent rsh" myself and
it overrode the underlying command as it should.

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{+} Jeff Squyres
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