Have you checked that the permissions on the '.rhosts' files are correct? Look at the man page on 'rsh' to see what they should be.
Kathy Bieltz
Blaise Canzian wrote:
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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