Hello, On the remote machine, you have to put an entry in the /etc/hosts.equiv file containing the name of your machine (locale !) and your user name. Then you should be able to use rlogin and rsh. There is an rsh client and server package in potato, although ssh is prefered.
Greetings, Stefan Goeman On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:12:38AM -0700, Tom Kuiper wrote: > I just installed potato (2.2) on a new server and tried unsuccessfully to set > up a daily rdist to it from an old machine running bo (2.0). After rdist > failed, I discovered that rsh, which rdist uses by default, (and rlogin) are > seriously disabled under potato. I guess it's a security feature. Not only > are > the services disabled in /etc/inetd.conf but the executables /usr/sbin/in.rsh > and /usr/bin/in.rlogin don't exist. A search of the available packages with > dselect did not turn up anything I could recognize. > > One option would be to run rdist with ssh, but I also can't find an ssh in the > bo archive. For that matter, does potato support rsh? > > Any advice would be much appreciated. > > Tom Kuiper > -- > Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (137.79.89.31) > SnailMail: Jet Propulsion Lab 169-506, Pasadena, CA 91109 > Phone/fax: (818) 354-5623/8895 > WWW: http://DSNra.JPL.NASA.gov/~kuiper/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- ******************************************************** * SIEMENS ATEA NV * * * * ICN D NC A: * * Ir. Stefan Goeman * * Tel: +32 14 253020 * * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * P.S.: Linux is great!! * ******************************************************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
