rhost authentication
akonstam at trinity.edu
akonstam at trinity.edu
Tue Apr 19 21:54:26 UTC 2005
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:54:28PM +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> 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.
One more step is required on the target machine. That is the creation
of a .rhosts file in a home directory with the contents:
<source machine name> <login of person with home directory>
Then only that person can rsh to the target machine. I assume that
limitation will not be a problem.
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