why rsh does not work

xiaobinlu02 · 03-19-2007, 05:23 PM

Hi folks,

I have RHEL 5 installed and whenever I do rsh, I got the following errors:

> rsh xlu ls /tmp
connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 544: Connection refused
Trying krb4 rsh...
connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 544: Connection refused
trying normal rsh (/usr/bin/rsh)
xlu: Connection refused

I have firewall and SELinux totally disabled.

Could anyone help here?

Thanks,

ilikejam · 03-19-2007, 06:59 PM

Hi.

rsh is horribly insecure, and as such the rshd service is switched off (and most likely not even installed) by default.

Use ssh.

Dave