Hi all,
I am trying to execute " rsh 'hostname' ls -l " on fedora core 3 from a RH9 machine I am
getting an error message 'Permission Denied.' How can I resolve this

I have already enabled the service and "rsh hostname" command is successfully running

what to do?
plz help me out.

You should use ssh instead, rsh is highly insecure. The syntax with ssh is: ssh -l <username> <machinename>

On your FC3 machine edit the /etc/hosts.allow file and add the line

in.rshd : <client IP address or IP range /sub mask>


The correct syntax is
rsh -l <username> host <command>

Hi,
The problem has been resolved by reinstalling the FC3 with X componants. Is there any X configuration file which is requered to execute the "rsh 'hostname' 'command name' " command?

This still doesn't make rsh passwordless :S

I just like to tell everybody that at last I found out why my rsh was using
Kerbos5 resulting in annoying messages (when am trying to get a clean passwordless rsh). As I analysed from the list:

Connection refused
Trying krb4
Connection refused
Trying normal

The first being a kerberos 5, then a version 4 try before finally a normal
being successful. I thought there must be more than one version of rsh installed. So I typed 'locate rsh'. I try the first on the list. I typed '/usr/bin/rsh localhost' and that worked fine. Then typed 'which rsh'. To my surprise it says '/usr/kerberos/bin/rsh'. I then
looked at my $PATH and see that that's the first folder that's being pathed. So I removed it. Problem solved.