need to user rdist, but rsh "permission denied"

[Blaise Canzian <blaise@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I need to use "rdist" to disseminate common files among many RH9 
workstations.  (BTW, any other way to do this not using rdist?)

But rdist relies on rsh, and rsh is giving "permission denied", and I 
cannot figure out why.  Perhaps someone on the list can help.

Here is an example of machine "argus" trying to rsh to machine "salsa".

1) ipchains firewalling turned off on both machines.

2) chkconfig --list | grep rsh (or rexec or rlogin) on argus and on 
salsa both show the following:

        rsh:    on
        rexec:  on
        rlogin: on

3) On salsa, here is /root/.rhosts:

	argus	root

4) Permissions on salsa:/root/.rhosts:

-r--------    1 root     root           25 Feb 20 10:57 .rhosts

5) salsa also has an /etc/hosts.equiv:

	+argus	root

6) Permissions on salsa:/etc/hosts.equiv:

-r--------    1 root     root           26 Feb 20 10:17 /etc/hosts.equiv

7) Here is salsa:/etc/xinetd.d/rsh:

service shell
{
        disable = no
        socket_type             = stream
        wait                    = no
        user                    = root
        log_on_success          += USERID
        log_on_failure          += USERID
        server                  = /usr/sbin/in.rshd
}

8)  Here is salsa:/etc/xinetd.d/rexec:

service exec
{
        disable = no
        socket_type             = stream
        wait                    = no
        user                    = root
        log_on_success          += USERID
        log_on_failure          += USERID
        server                  = /usr/sbin/in.rexecd
}

9)  I have done "service xinetd restart" to make sure the above #7-8 are 
active.

10)  /etc/hosts on salsa has an entry for argus and /etc/hosts on argus 
has an entry for salsa.

11)  And yet the command from argus of "rsh salsa ls" returns 
"Permission denied."

Any suggestions?  Thanks.

-- Blaise Canzian


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