Re: [CentOS] rsh with passwords

On 10/03/07, Florin Andrei florin@andrei.myip.org wrote:

I am doing rsync over a private network. Encryption is not required. Currently rsync over ssh works, but requires too many CPU cycles (especially when doing a lot of transfers) on a CPU-bound system. I need to use rsh instead.

The problem is, I can either set rsh to allow transfers without a password, or it won't let me transfer files at all.

It's been a long time since I was required to setup passwordless rsh/rlogin but from memory, I had to hack about with some of the rsh/rlogin PAM configs under /etc/pam.d to remove some password requirements. This was back on RH7.x.

There's a bunch of Kerberos authentication required for the CentOS/RHEL rsh/rlogin variants too.

Will.