Re: rsh root priv

[rkilgore@lore.ece.utexas.edu (Richard Kilgore)]

On Apr 2, Nathan O. Siemers wrote
>Hello all:
>
>I'm having trouble telling linux to allow rsh's to work as root from
>remote machines. Root's .rhosts, /etc/hosts.equiv, and
>/etc/hosts.allow don't seem to affect the "permission denied"
>result. Solution?

Change the command in.rshd in your /etc/inetd.conf file to read
in.rshd -h.  Same works for in.rlogind, if you want easier rlogin.
Someone changed this a few months ago and did not document it
well.

   later,

   - rick

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