Red Hat

Hello,

Can you help me on how to activate the rsh and rcp services. And also how do i test it after i have enable it

Thanks.

Besides those being horribly insecure and a bad idea, why do you need them? There are often other and better ways to access and run commands on Linux

I would very much suggest using ssh and scp instead of these archaic services that have huge security implications. Both "ssh" and "scp" are drop in replacements and work in very similar ways. If, however, you want password-less shell access or copying, you will need to carry out further steps. If you definitely want to run rsh and rcp you need to install the rsh and rsh-server rpm's from the RHEL install CD's (You may optionally need the xinetd rpm as well).

After rsh RPMs are installed, you may need to do the following:

- add rsh to /etc/securetty
- set "disable = no" in /etc/xinetd.d/rsh
- chkconfig xinetd on
- service xinetd restart

Thanks for the replies, how about the /etc/hosts.allow? Do i need to modify it? What it should look like?

After being told how horrible a security risk this is, you still intend on using it vs alternatives?

Yes, you need to make an entry for rshd if you are using TCP wrappers. For example, if you want to allow all hosts with an address of 192.168.0.* access, this is the entry you need to add to /etc/hosts.allow.

Code:

rshd : 192.168.0.