On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:12 PM, James A. Peltier jpeltier@sfu.ca wrote:
----- Original Message ----- | On 10/10/11 9:39 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | > It looks like I am also having trouble with rsh on C6 ...
| rsh was deprecated 10+ years ago, along with all the other r things... | they aren't even remotely secure and using them is sloppy practice, | even | on a private network.
Tell that to the engineering software vendors who require the service in order to properly operate. If I didn't already know that, obviously I wouldn't be posting this as I use SSH keys for most other services.
I am exactly in the same situation. Our IT department allows access to their tape archiver only by way of '/usr/bin/rsh server command'. For well >15 years now.
In my case, what I needed to get it to work was :
(1) install /usr/bin/rsh by 'yum install rsh'
(2) Add the following to iptables :
-A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp -s [server IP] --dport 1011:1023 -j ACCEPT
You may want to adjust the port range by examining the ports used for inbound connections from the server.
Hope this helps,
Akemi