remsh from HPUX to SCO ..

[someone_4]

I am trying to write a script that will allow me to remsh from an HPUX box to a sco box and execute commands. But I cant get it to work.
Does anyone have any ideas?
remsh does not work.

[Pedro Sousa]

Hi!
Didn't you forget to create the .rhosts file in the Sun box?
You need to create that file in the user's home with permissions to the system and to the user.
then you should be able to remsh the system from the HP.

[someone_4]

Yeah that is done ..
And I even set up the etc/hosts.equiv
in the SCO box.

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi,
I just tried on a sco box..., you need only .rhosts, but the sco box must have your HPbox defined in /etc/hosts

Hope it helps

Good luck
Victor

[Kevin Wright]

both boxes must have the other ip address in it's respective /etc/hosts file. make sure the shell is not commented out in inetd.conf and exec.
are you sure you have the ~.rhosts file set up right..are you using the same login name on both boxes?
host1 login
or
host1 +

[someone_4]

I have the HPbox defined in the /etc/hosts
and i fun the command
# remsh host -l root -n 'hostname'
and this is what i get ..
Host address mismatch /#

[someone_4]

yes i have the .rhosts
setup right =)

[Rajeev Tyagi]

Hi,

Can you make sure that your remshd and rlogind are properly configured in inetd.conf file.

[someone_4]

Yes , remshd and rlogind are properly configured in inetd.conf file. I can remsh to any other HPUX box in my network.
Just having trouble with sco.
Would it be easier if I wrote the script on a SCO box to remsh to the other SCO boxes?

[Kevin Wright]

Berkely Services should not be very different on different unix flavors, login as root to the SCO box,
vi ~.rhosts
hpbox root
got to hpbox
login as root
remsh sco box
if that doesn't work, and inetd.conf is correct, and inetd.sec is OK,I don't know what else to tell you.

[f. halili]

1) you may need to setup the following files:

/etc/hosts.equiv
/etc/hosts.allow
/home/username/.rhosts

- fnhalili

[Unix Group]

Hi,

Maybe kind of late to respond to this thread but here goes anyway....

I noticed on HP-UX that ".rhosts" usage is not restricted to having write permissions only for the owner/user in whoms home directory the file is located.

I believe this is a restriction on SCO systems.

Can anyone please verify my findings?

Regards,

Harm Meijer