On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 21:24, V Krish wrote: > I want to use rsh on an internal machine running FC2 > but am unable to do. > "rsh localhost" gave the message "Connection refused" > Then I changed rsh to "enable" in /etc/xinetd.d/rsh > and rlogin. I restarted /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd. > > When I try to rsh into the localhost, connection is no > longer refused but it does not accept the usual > password ! You didn't say, but if you are trying to do this as root, there are other things you must do as well. You must add 'rsh' to /etc/securetty and you will probably also have to add a few of 'pts/0', 'pts/1', etc. -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks@xxxxxxxxx>