On Saturday 19 May 2007, Banibrata Dutta wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried several recommendations to enable 'rsh' for the user > 'root'. I know about the pitfalls and dangers or doing same, but I > must have this because of particular need for the software suites I am > running. > I am able to run 'rsh' just fine for all other users. It's just for > 'root' that I am facing problems. > > I've attempted by adding 'rsh', 'rlogin', 'rexec' in /etc/securetty > file, i.e. first three lines. Didn't help. > I've attempted by adding the 'server_options = o' & 'server_options = > -o' in the /etc/xinitd.d/rsh file. Didn't help. > > On running the following, > # rsh <myhostname> pwd > > I get: > Trying krb4 rsh... > krb_sendauth failed: You have no tickets cached > trying normal rsh (/usr/bin/rsh) > Permission denied. > > Also, if someone is aware of how to disable the feature of rsh to > attempt connection using Kerberos ? > I'm not a coder, so perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but isn't the usual recommendation for security that you should ssh log in as user, then su to root? Anne
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