Can't remote login from HP to Linux.

[Angus Crome · Accepted solution]

Have you turned on rsh and rlogin in xinetd?
If not, you are not going to get in. I believe the files you want are in /etc/xinetd.d

You should make sure that the configs for rlogin and/or rsh (whichever you use) are set with disable=no

Even though it says default on in the comment under Red Hat 7.2 (my default installation had them set as disable=yes).

You will still need the hosts.equiv or .rhosts files to do it without password though (and of course this is not recommended for security reasons).

[Kenny Chau]

Thanks Angus, you are right, I had missed the file rsh in the /etc/xinetd.d. Thanks for reminding me.

Regards,
Kenny.

[Peter Kloetgen]

Hi Kenny,

something more that can cause an error:

/etc/securetty

this file has to be renamed/removed to get this to work.

/etc/xinetd.d -->vi the desired service, change disable="yes" to "no"

--> restart xinetd

That should do it for you.

Allways stay on the brigth side of life!

Peter