remsh/rsh prblm

[John Carr_2]

Hi

I just looked at your profile you may find the guru's more likely to help if you assign points for contributed suggestion or even just acknowledge the suggestions with N/A.

John.

[John Carr_2]

Hi

I think the problem is with the hpux server but I have just revisited the .profile on the solaris server.

when I issue command

remsh hpux . .profile 2>&- \; uptime

I get nothing back , just the prompt

I have copied /etc/skel/.profile to /

now when I issue the command I get

value of TERM is set to "".
WARNING YOU ARE SUPERUSER !!

10:37AM up 5:28, 4 USERS ...

TRY THIS AND SEE IF YOU GET ANY CONFLICT WITH TERM

cheers
John.

[dhanish]

Hi,
Thanks John ...I relly dont know whats the problem..i never faced such a prblm ever.

thnkls for your help Michael !!

[dhanish]

Hi John,
I tried that...i get nothing just a prompt.

thnks

[John Carr_2]

Hi

im burnt out hope you can find someone to resolve this I look forward to seeing the solution.

good luck
John.

[Jeff Schussele]

Have you checked to see if the HP-UX system has a /var/adm/inetd.sec file & if so what it contains?

Just a thought,
Jeff

[Steve Post]

Might be an environmental issue. I.e. some variables are not set right.

Log into the sparc like normal
run env > /tmp/env.sparc1
remsh into the sparc from hp
run env > /tmp/env.sparc2
log into the hp like normal
run env > /tmp/env.hp1
log into the hp from the sparc via remsh just to run the command
env > /tmp/env.hp2

Now look at the four files. There is probably a difference between env.hp1 and env.hp2. My GUESS it that difference is why is fails.

where is the environment set? well one place is /etc/profile. Another is root's home at .profile (if you have a .profile there).

one other thing I did not see in here. Make sure the .rhosts permissions is set to 400.

[Tor-Arne Nostdal]

Have you tried to check that you really get hold of the correct command

solaris# remsh hpux 'which uptime'
/usr/bin/uptime

Then run with full path specification
solaris# remsh hpux '/usr/bin/uptime'

/Tor-Arne

[Adam Ranville_2]

I now have the same problem to a tee...rlogin works but rsh does not.

Did anyone ever find out why?

[Steven E. Protter]

Through 33 posts not a mention of how insecure this entire setup is.

Makes me cringe. Seems you could do what you want to do with Secure shell and stop leaving your system wide open, using the Berkeley protocols.

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Here is a cookbook on how to set things up for passwordless ssh which is the same as rsh.


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[Adam Ranville_2]

(Shrugs shoulders)

COuldn't agree more, just can't change developer build processes over night...


I seem to remember a patch fixing this for me ages ago...I just can't remember the patch, it was a weird problem that required a somewhat unrelated patch.

[Adam Ranville_2]

Stupid problem, Stupid answer I guess....

dhanish - check your nsswitch.conf and make sure that services doesn't have NIS or anything strange as a lookup.

By default (at least I never made the change and it's a clean install) /etc/services is looked up via NIS. Make sure that this is changed to look in local files.

RSH from any host now works for me.

Commence head banging...