Need to rsh as root to Red Hat 7.1 system...

[sun1]

This is a bit maddening... I've done a keyword search here and on Google and found some very good advice. Unfortunately, I still can't rsh into my Red Hat 7.1 system from my Solaris Quick Restore backup host. Here's what I've done so far:

1) Made certain the "disable" line in /etc/xinetd.d/rsh is equal to "no"
2) Added the Solaris box I'm trying to come in from to /.rhosts
3) Added a "rsh" line to /etc/securetty.
4) Restarted xinetd.

I still get "Connection refused" from the Linux box.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
-Tom

 

[ProbablyDown]

Does the root user have remote login ability?

 

[sun1]

root should have remote login capability because I added the "rsh" line to /etc/securetty. Yes?

 

[d3vNull]

ack..

Do not use rsh, it is a bad thing<tm> and AFAIR it is not installed by default in redhat anymore...

you should go to

http://www.sunfreeware.com

and install openssh on the solaris box, and use ssh instead of rsh... more secure and reliable

--d3vNull
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[sun1]

My backup software (Quick Restore) requires rsh.