cannot rsh to redhat

[Alexander Apprich]

John Dunn wrote:
> I am getting "Connection refused"  when trying to rsh to a redhat 9 box from
> a AIX box. The AIX hostname and user are in the hosts.equiv file.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

AFAIK you need to do the following steps:

1. Install rsh-server-0.17-14
2. enable rsh/rlogin in /etc/xinetd.d by setting disable = no
3. restart xinetd with service xinetd restart
4. add rsh and rlogin to /etc/securetty

That should do the trick.

Alex