how to enable rsh

[Mujtaba Khan]

Hi,
i want to enable rsh on my machine actually . what i did is create a file by name .rhosts in /etc enter the hostname i want to access . Do the same on the machine to whom i want to access but fail . error is host not found .

Regards

Mujtaba Khan

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

I think you mean 'remsh' for "remote shell". Assuming that you have properly configured your '.rhosts' files, then make sure that the 'shell' service isn't commented-out in '/etc/inetd.conf'. If it is, un-comment it and restart the 'inetd' daemon:

shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/remshd remshd

# /usr/sbin/inetd -c

Regards!

...JRF...

[Patrick Wallek]

If you created the file in /etc, then the name should be hosts.equiv rather than .rhosts. The .rhosts file, if used, belongs in your home directory.

# man rhosts
or
# man hosts.equiv

for more information.

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] but fail . error is host not found .

_What_ fails? Exactly what command did you
use? (And where did you use it?) Exactly
what happened when you tried it? (Do "copy"
and "paste" work for you?)

> [...] on my machine [...]

What _is_ your machine? "uname -a"?

[Mujtaba Khan]

Hi,

consider host names are
Machine A (172.19.74.47)
Machine B (172.19.74.48)

what i want is to do remsh to machine B from machine A.

Entry in hosts.equiv (Machine A)

# machineB 01_srv root
172.19.74.48

Entry in hosts.equiv (Machine B)
172.19.74.47


..
# remsh 172.19.74.48
â ¬Password:

it require password .. what i want is it wont ask for password and allow me to in directly.

Regards

Mujtaba Khan

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi Mujtaba Khan,

Normally, this is the way to go around:

Assuming you want to copy a directory subtree from Machine B to Machine A. The steps are:

1. At machine A
a) Create /.rhosts file and add 2 lines



2. At Machine B, repeat the step (1.a)

3. Login as root from Machine B

4. Try rlogin
This should log you in to Machine A without password.

5. From Machine A try
rlogin
Again login should happen without password.

6. Now You must be in Machine B. Assuming you want to copy /tmp/mydir

# rcp -r /tmp/mydir :/

7. Verify files check at your Machine A if you got the files. if so, you can proceed.


hope this helps!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Pete Randall]

It appears that you are trying to remsh as root. In that case hosts.equiv is ignored and you must have .rhosts set up in root's home directory (see man rhosts).


Pete

[Mujtaba Khan]

Thanks a lot to all we achieve our objective by rsync (linux but for HP-UX need some file to be download and configure) and very use ful as well.

Regards

Mujtaba Khan