RSH authentication problems

Can anyone tell me how to get rsh working (needed
to try out GNU VXD)

I have tried entries in ~/.rhosts and /etc/hosts.equiv
I have the permissions set to 600 on these files, owned
by me and root respectively.
I tried making rshd setuid (root)
I have the client host name in /etc/hosts
I have the relevant entry in /etc/inetd.conf
I have restarted the latter

All I get on the server is:

someone wants shell
accept, ctrl 4
####### execl /usr/sbin/rshd
####### reaped, status 0x100

All I get from the windows client is permission denied,
with “rsh host -l user”

Thanks in advance
William Morris

You want to check with “shelf → Configure → Network”, to see if you are
“look in local hosts file first”.

In general, start syslogd properly, and rshd would tell you something in the
syslog.

-xtang


William Morris <william@bangel.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3DECC0C7.8F55218A@bangel.demon.co.uk

Can anyone tell me how to get rsh working (needed
to try out GNU VXD)

I have tried entries in ~/.rhosts and /etc/hosts.equiv
I have the permissions set to 600 on these files, owned
by me and root respectively.
I tried making rshd setuid (root)
I have the client host name in /etc/hosts
I have the relevant entry in /etc/inetd.conf
I have restarted the latter

All I get on the server is:

someone wants shell
accept, ctrl 4
####### execl /usr/sbin/rshd
####### reaped, status 0x100

All I get from the windows client is permission denied,
with “rsh host -l user”

Thanks in advance
William Morris

Xiaodan Tang wrote:

You want to check with “shelf → Configure → Network”,
to see if you are “look in local hosts file first”.

I have no /etc/resolv.conf so I guess name resolution
will just look in /etc/hosts. We don’t have DNS name
resolution.

In general, start syslogd properly, and rshd would tell
you something in the syslog.

Already running, but nothing shows up.

Thanks
William