On 5/25/05, Olaf Greve o.greve@axis.nl wrote:
Hi,
For a project at work we are currently installing a distributed software development platform which has been developed years ago. All swell, of course, but the issue is that it depends on rsh for remote application invocation.
Now... I have always been taught that rsh, rlogin and rexec are BAD and that one should really stick to SSH only.
Unfortunately, I do not have enough time to completely patch over the platform such that it will use SSH (and frankly, that's really a task the official developers should perform!), so, I'd like to temporarily enable rsh.
Or a quick work-around:
cd /usr/bin mv rsh rsh.old ln -s ssh rsh
They are command line compatible for exactly this reason, with some restrictions. Quick google turned up this: http://www.hn.edu.cn/book/NetWork/NetworkingBookshelf_2ndEd/ssh/ch04_05.htm
And please remember to distribute the ssh keys propperly so you don't need to enter password all the time...
/Mike