Re: Why does rsh still work?

[Mike M <linux-support@earthlink.net>]

On Tuesday 01 April 2003 18:09, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:57:33PM -0500, Mike M wrote:
> > On my Debian 3 sparc machine there is no rshd running and there is no
> > shell or login entry in /etc/inetd.conf.  There is an sshd process.  I am
> > still able to rsh in from a Debian 3 i386 machine.  From a RH6.1 I get
> > connection refused when I try to rsh to the Debian 3 sparc machine.
>
> ls -l `which rsh` /etc/alternatives/rsh
> should answer your question.

'was driving me crazy - thanks all.

sun1:~# ls -l /usr/bin/rsh
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 Mar 28 17:09 /usr/bin/rsh -> 
/etc/alternatives/rsh
sun1:~# ls -l /etc/alternatives/rsh
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           12 Mar 28 17:09 /etc/alternatives/rsh 
-> /usr/bin/ssh


-- 
Mike M.