Hello,

In spite of following steps to enable root rsh, I am getting following message in /var/log/messages:


Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so)
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_securetty.so)
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_securetty.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_nologin.so)
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_nologin.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_env.so)
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_env.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_env.so
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_stack.so)
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_stack.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_stack.so
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: rsh denied to root@lcan350.pbm.ihost.com as root: Permission denied.
Mar 3 21:48:19 lcan350 rshd[21280]: rsh command was 'date'




I have added following to /etc/securetty file

rexec
rsh
rlogin

I also tried putting pseudo tty names and that also did not work.

I have tried /root/.rhosts with both 644 and 600 permissions. Can someone help me out here?




Thank you

For starters, ssh seems to be the preferred method of remote connection due to better security.

For your situation, it might not be a bad idea to grant access to a less privledged user and leave root disabled from logging in remotely. This gives increased security since you allow a normal user, which has to be known to even attempt hacking in, and that normal user can then still su once logged in to do any tasks that need root.

NEVER USE RSH, use ssh! Much much better