[CentOS] rsh/rlogin on CentOS4.2

Thu Feb 2 17:52:14 UTC 2006
James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com>

Scott Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, February 2, 2006 09:35, James Pearson wrote:
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>>Scott Taylor wrote:
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> Finally something sane. ;)
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>>If you don't use the Kerberos stuff, then remove it ... it's probably
>>the krb5-workstation package - i.e.
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>>rpm -e krb5-workstation
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> OK.  That did it.  Thanks.
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>>I don't know about rexec, but for rlogin and rsh:
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>>Edit /etc/pam.d/rsh and change the line:
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> Those files are missing in this install. :(
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>>Make sure 'rsh' and 'rlogin' are listed in /etc/securetty
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> Yes.  Thanks.

/etc/pam.d/rsh and /etc/pam.d/rlogin are part of the rsh-server package 
i.e. required if you need to rsh/rlogin into the CentOS box.

If you need to rsh/rlogin out of the the CentOS box, then changing the 
pam.d files won't help....

James Pearson