I have Linux version 9 installed and I'm having trouble getting rsh to work from another unix host to the Linux system.

I've updated done the following:
/etc/secuetty file and added: rsh, rexec, rlogin
/etc/pam.d/rsh modified the pam_rhost_auth line to 'suffient' from required
created /etc/hosts/equiv file
added ALL:ALL to the hosts.allow
created .rhosts .. with fully qualified domain name
turned on rsh and rlogin in chkconf

I can rsh -l otheruser linux-host date .. and this works..
But it fails whenever I try to run rsh from another host as root..

I can see the pam authenicate.. but rsh denies access to root.

[root@localhost root]# Jul 12 13:36:22 localhost pam_rhosts_auth[2530]: allowed to root@us-sd-intralink2.sdp.sel.sony.com as root
Jul 12 13:36:22 localhost in.rshd[2530]: rsh denied to root@us-sd-intralink2.sdp.sel.sony.com as root: Permission denied.
Jul 12 13:36:22 localhost in.rshd[2530]: rsh command was 'ls'

any ideas..??

you help is greatly appreciated..

-doug s

When authenticating to the root user (user with the UID of 0), the first check of the /etc/hosts.equiv file is skipped. Success of the rhosts authentication is based solely on the contents of the root user's $HOME/.rhosts file.

I've working with the .rhosts .. with no luck ..

if I put the hostname, fully quailified.domain.host with +.. the pam authentication will fail.. if I use hostname root in the .rhosts.. the pam authenticate passes but rsh denies access.. so it looks like the authenitcate is happening.. just the rsh is failing or is by default not allowing rsh by root user.

error in message log with hostname root in the .rhosts under the root $home folder.. root $home is not / but in this case its /root..

any other ideas..?

thanks again