cannot rsh to redhat

[Rick Stevens]

Alexander Apprich wrote:
> 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.

Yes, and we HIGHLY recommend you DON'T use rsh or telnet.  Always use
ssh.
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