Re: [TCLUG:3260] rdist

["Mark A. Bentley" <bentlema@cs.umn.edu>]

On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Richard Seymour wrote:

> Well, I can't rsh (I get the "Permission denied" message).
> 

For example, to rsh from host "foo.com" to host "bar.com" as user
"travagli" you'd need an ~travagli/.rhosts on bar.com that looks like this:

      foo.com travagli

This will allow user "travagli" from host foo.com access.

When you rsh from foo.com, rshd on bar.com will see that your username is
"travagli" and then look in travagli's home directory for a .rhosts file.
If it exists and the appropriate line permitting access exists, you will be
granted access.

*WARNING* be very careful about adding hosts to your .rhost file which are
dialup lines like "12-164.dynamic.visi.com".  Doing this opens up your
machine to whoever happens to be on that line.  There are people who
routinely scan dialup lines for accounts that have been left wide
open--particularly the root account.


> What I need is some basic information on how to do this. Is there a HOWTO
> out there somewhere?
> 
> On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Mark A. Bentley wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Richard Seymour wrote:
> > 
> > > Trying to get rdist to work so I can use it to update all the files in the
> > > /home directory from my RedHat 5.2 system here in Mpls to my system out in
> > > Oregon.
> > > 
> > > I get the message:
> > > LOCAL ERROR: Unexpected input from server: "Permission denied.".
> > > 
> > 
> > Make sure you can rsh to the remote host as the user you're rdisting as.
> > Rdistd doesn't run all the time on the remote host...rdist will rsh into
> > the remote host and execute rdistd and go from there.
> > 
> > 
> > > I've read the man page, can't find a HOWTO anywhere. Anyone able to help
> > > step me through this?
> > > 
> > > Thanks...
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Richard Seymour, Anarchy Software, Inc.
> > > anarchy@anarchysoftware.com
> > > 
> > > The opinions expressed are those of my employer, not my own.
> > > 
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Mark A Bentley                  Email:  bentlema@cs.umn.edu
Systems Staff, CSci Dept
University of Minnesota         URL:    http://www.cs.umn.edu/~bentlema/