 | | | need to user rdist, but rsh "permission denied " | need to user rdist, but rsh "permission denied " 2004-02-20 - By Kathy Bieltz
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Blaise,
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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