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

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote:
>>
>>I don't have rsh installed on my machines any more, but I had
>>a similar situation with telnet.  
>>
>>Try this:  Go into /etc/xinetd.d and see if you have a file
>>for rsh.  If so, edit it and see if there is a line that says
>>"disable = yes".  If so, change the yes to no.  In my case with
>>telnet, even after I turned the service on in system-config-services,
>>it did not remove that line and did not start the service.
>>
>>If there is nothing related to rsh in /etc/xinetd.d, please ignore
>>this post.
> 
> 
> I already did that with no success
> 
>                 Jouk
> 
Make sure that portmap is running. The 'r' commands need portmap
running on the target machine in order to connect. But you should
be aware that portmap is a security risk. You really should look at
using ssh in place of rsh. If you set up a key pair, you can use it
as a drop-in replacement for rsh.

Mikkel
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