3 things: (1) add the following to /etc/pam.d/rsh auth sufficient pam_rhosts_auth.so no_hosts_equiv giving the file as so: #%PAM-1.0 # For root login to succeed here with pam_securetty, "rlogin" must be # listed in /etc/securetty. auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_securetty.so auth required pam_env.so auth sufficient pam_rhosts_auth.so no_hosts_equiv auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth password required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth (2) If you also want "root" to be able to login via rlogin you also have to add the line "rlogin" to /etc/securetty. This is not necessary for normal users. (3) Creat a ".rhosts" file in the users home directory, that contains the machine name and user that is allowed to rlogin, and make sure it has ownership of user only, and permissions of 600 exactly, thus: # ls -al .rhosts -rw------- 1 user1 user1 234 Jun 15 17:38 .rhosts # cat .rhosts machine1.domain1.com user1 machine2.domain1.com user1 Keith Deterling deterlin@us.ibm.com Technical Services Professional, Unix & Intel Server Services - IBM Account IBM Global Services - Americas Service Delivery – Server Systems Operation Team Essex, Junction, VT 05242 – Bldg. 967 – 1C2009 I am not able to unfold, how this cautelous enterprise of licensing can be exempted from the number of vain and impossible attempts. And he who were pleasantly disposed could not well avoid to liken it to the exploit of that gallant man who thought to pound up the crows by shutting his park gate. -- comments from a while back on software licensing . <tt><<Message: 8 Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:20:44 +0200 From: Kay Winterhager <Kay.Winterhager@lsg.vanderlande.com> Subject: [rhn-users] RHEL4 rlogin problem To: rhn-users@redhat.com Message-ID: <OF5ED12F9F.FA8233AA-ONC1257035.004E3BCF-C1257035.004ECCC9@lsg.vanderlande.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi,</tt> <tt>I want to use rlogin to connect to another RHEL4 Server, but I get always the following message: [root@NODE1 bin]# rlogin NODE2 connect to address 192.168.124.11: Connection refused Trying krb4 rlogin... connect to address 192.168.124.11: Connection refused trying normal rlogin (/usr/bin/rlogin) NODE2: Connection refused rsh-0.17-25.3 and rsh-server-0.17-25.3 is installed and service rsh is "on" Could someone tell me what I have to do to make rlogin available! Thanks Kay>></tt>