Re: Re: rexec - where are you? How to configure you?
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 10:12:18AM -0700, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:55:22 +1000
> Chris Kenrick <chrisk@aurema.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:24:25PM -0700, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Just installed sucessfully 3.0 as a test in my quest for incremental
> > > backups and a free backup system for multiple machines (bye-bye RH).
> > > The software I run needs aside from rsh and rlogin rexec - only I
> > > can't find that anywhare in the distribution - any hints as where to
> > > sneek this up?
> >
> > I presume you mean the servers (rlogind, rshd and rexecd). They can be
> > found in the rsh-server package.
> That's - IMHO - not correct, since I naturally had installed that and
> saying "rexec" left me with a "bash: rexec: command not found" (while
> "rsh" and "rlogin" evoce responses). A package-content search on the
> debian page for "rexec" only comes up with one "/etc/pam.d/rexec" that
> doesn't seem to be what I want (or is it?).
Ah, you're only after the rexec client. It doesn't seem to be in any
package, as you say, so I can only conclude that it must be part of the
base system. Maybe it's in a directory that isn't in your path (did you
try as root, since root usually has all the sbin directories in it's
path too). I'd check for you, but I've only got access to RedHat boxes
here at work :(
>
> > However, if it all possible, try to use ssh instead of rexec and rsh.
> > The changes to the software to do this would be minimal, and the
> > security improvement is well worth the effort, IMHO.
> I don't get that kind of choice, since the binary is all one gives me.
>
> > > In redhat I used to activated the rsh/rlogin/rexec-combo by editing
> > > /etc/xinetd.d/rlogin, rsh and rexec. Am I correct that the whole block
> > > from those files goes into the xinetd.conf in debian.
> I'll try this myself, but could people please comment on this?
Now I'm confused. Does the software rsh/rlogin/rexec to a remote
machine, or is there a need for the local machine to be accessible via
rsh/rlogin/rexec. Unless you need to be able to rsh/rexec/rlogin into
the local machine, it would be best to leave it disabled.
- Chris
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