rhost authentication

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 19 Apr 2005, at 20:32, carlos m. martinez wrote:

> Hi,
> I have installed RH Fedora core release 1. I can do ssh to another host
> in my LAN but I can't do rsh. Te messages are: no route to host (from
> host1) and connection refused (from host2).
> I need do rsh without type password. I know that it's possible with ssh
> too (ssh-keygen, ssh-agent) but I don't care about security and need 
> rsh
> to run another application that use it....
> What can I do. I'm new in Linux

1. Make sure rsh-server is installed
2. Explicitly enable the *very insecure* rsh service by editing 
/etc/xinetd. d/rsh
3. Last, make sure the xinetd service is running by running service 
xinetd start.

Also make sure your firewall is not blocking traffic targeted to the 
rsh service.