On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:12 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at 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