rlogin no longer works after converted to trusted system

[Bosco Tsang]

I have convert a server to a trusted system, and have added/create the hosts.equiv file via Sam's remote login menu. However, when I tried to rlogin, it reports,

Protocol error, testing.uoguelph.ca closed connection

The protocol is there as it work before the conversion. Any idea what goes wrong, and how to fix it?

[Charles McCary]

Bosco,

couple of things to check:

1) .rhosts file
2) /etc/hosts file

[Bosco Tsang]

1) .rhost is there, under my home directory, but shouldn't it will ignore under trusted system?

2) /etc/hosts is there, and I am using dns server, so there is only 1 entry.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Bosco,

Check
1) /etc/inetd.conf -> make sure the rlogin line has not been commented out
2) /var/adm/inetd.sec -> make sure there are no allow/deny statements in there to prevent access from your host/subnet
3) /etc/services -> make sure the following line exists & is not commented
login 513/tcp # remote login

If all these are OK trying restarting inetd & have it reread it configuration
/sbin/init.d/inetd -c

HTH,
Jeff

[Bosco Tsang]

1) /etc/inetd.conf has login entry, not commented out
2) /var/adm/inetd.sec has login entry with correct host
3) /etc/services has login entry on port 513

Any further idea?

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Bosco,
Other thing to check is
/etc/hosts.equiv file

Sachin

[Bosco Tsang]

hosts.equiv checked, it's in order.

[Charles McCary]

Bosco,

can you change the names to protect the innocent and post a copy of your hosts.equiv?

[Bosco Tsang]

xxxx.yyy.uoguelph.ca myname

That's the only line in hosts.equiv. Thanks.

[Bosco Tsang]

I have just do a reboot (due to another unrelated patch install), and it suddenly works! Seems like I am doing everything correct, but inetd -c do not cause it to reread the configuration ...only reboot will do the job :( Thanks everyone.