RHEL4 - rsh: permission denied (new info)

[Thomas Walter]

I compared the remote machine referred to below that won't accept an rsh 
command with a machine that will. /etc/xinetd.d was missing files 
originally on the remote machine and I copied /etc/xinetd.d/rsh from the 
working machine to the non-working machine. Also missing was 
/usr/sbin/in.rshd which i also copied over. I should have included this 
info in my original post.

I have another freshly installed RHEL4 machine (called tom) where I choose 
to install "everything" (the problem machine in question did not have "everything" 
installed but a subset). Using my "cookbook" I was able to get rsh working 
in 5 minutes! I'm now thinking that install somehow left out something but 
i have no idea what. Any ideas out there?

Thanks.

Tom 


On Wed, 3 May 2006, Thomas Walter wrote:

> 
> I'm trying to get rsh set between two machines (local is Solaris 9, 
> remote is RHEL4). I've done it before (I 
> have a "cookbook") but I'm missing something. Please help. I'm aware of 
> the security issues involved using "r" commands.
> 
> What I've done on remote machine:
> - in .rhosts I put FQ machine name and user name.
> - added "+ FQ machine name user" in /etc/hosts.equiv
> - in /etc/xinetd.d/rsh and rexec changed to "disable = no"
> - added rsh to /etc/securetty
> - restarted xinetd
> - no error messages in/etc/log/messages when restarting xinetd.
> 
> What I've done on local machine:
> - added remote FQ machine name and same user name to .rhosts
> 
> On local machine the command "rsh machinename w" results in "permission 
> denied"
> 
> On remote machine command "rsh localhost w" results in "permission denied.
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Tom 
> 
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