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Re: rlogin and rsh for potato?



I use rsh routinely on potato you did get the appropriate packages?
rsh-client and rsh-server? They are not installed by default.

Jeff

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
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