Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:10:39 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu> To: hal <hal@cc.usu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rshd vs 5.4 Message-ID: <42EAA95F.3060503@t-hosting.hu> In-Reply-To: <46F46F5A-5AFD-49FB-A19E-7FEFDE74C278@cc.usu.edu> References: <46F46F5A-5AFD-49FB-A19E-7FEFDE74C278@cc.usu.edu>
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hal wrote: > Trying to connect to my new backup server running 5.4 using rsh fails. > > It worked well on my old backup server running 4.7 P25. > > inetd.conf has the /usr/libexec/rshd line un-commented. > > hosts.allow permits the remote host to connect to rshd. > > The rsh file in /etc/pam.d has been patched by hand and looks good. > > The message I am getting after some timeout period is: > > server.host.name: Connection refused > > It appears that inetd, which is running by the way, is not starting > rshd. > > Can anyone give me a pointer or two to get this thing working? > > hal Unfortunately, I don't know the solution for your problem, but I'm really intersted what's the point in using rshd? SSH is more common and it is secure. Security is not necessary in a trusted subnet, but sshd would suffice your needs. And FreeBSD is shipped with a working sshd configurations, what You have to do is only enabling it in rc.conf. Cheers, Gábor Kövesdán
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