topic Re: Remote shell in Operating System - HP-UX

Remote shell

ramesh_4 — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:50:27 GMT

What is the use of rsh? can anyone please explain?

Re: Remote shell

Shahul — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:54:49 GMT

Hi

rsh is not remote shell. It stands for restricted version of POSIX or Bourne shell. It sets up a login name and execution environment whose capabilities are more controled than normal shells.

Shahul

Re: Remote shell

federico_3 — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:58:24 GMT

the coomand you should use is remsh. rsh is not a HP-UX command.

It connects to a specified host and executes the specified command.

From SERVERA do:
remsh SERVERB -l username -n "command "
The command will be executed without the request of the passsword if in $HOME(username)/.rhosts (on SERVERB)there is the entry:
your_account(inSERVERA) SERVERA

Federico

Re: Remote shell

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:00:08 GMT

Hi:

'rsh' is the "restricted shell". From the man pages for 'sh-posix':

rsh is used to set up login names and execution environments where capabilities are more controlled than those of the standard shell. The actions of rsh are identical to those of sh, except that the following are forbidden:

+ Changing directory (see the cd special command and cd(1))
+ Setting the value of SHELL, ENV, or PATH
+ Specifying path or command names containing /
+ Redirecting output (>, >|, <>, and >>)

...JRF...