Re: (fedora) Re: how to setup rsh(d) on FC4

[Alexander Apprich <a apprich science-computing de>]

Hi Jouk,

Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote:
> John Summerfied <debian herakles homelinux org> 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