Hi Jouk, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote: > John Summerfied <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 8-FEB-2006 00:08:28.47 > > >>Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote: >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I try to get the rsh command working to a FC4 system >> >>The mandatory question, "Why?" >> >>rsh is inherently insecure. For most purposes ssh is supperior (and not >>just for security), so why use rsh? > > > I know, but... > I want to setup an automated procedure on my openVMS machine to perform > tasks on the FC4 machine. rsh on VMS allows me to give username/password on > the command line. ssh does not allow me to do that and when I try to read > the password from anythink else than the keyboard it crashes. (I do not like > to sit 24 hours a day at my computer). > I will try to do this only for machines on the the same local network > (actually on the same switch panel) so that the big advantage off the > encryption of ssh versus rsh is not a big issue. > I didn't catch the whole thread... first make sure you have rsh-server rpm installed root@elmstreet / # rpm -qa | grep rsh-server rsh-server-0.17-29.1 and xinetd is installed root@elmstreet / # rpm -qa | grep xinet xinetd-2.3.13-6 second edit /etc/xinetd.d/rsh and change disable=yes to disable=no third edit /etc/securetty and add a line with rsh fourth restart xinetd service w/ service xinetd restart Hth Alex
