allowing rsh access

[uerden]

hi,
how can i allow rsh access to a computer?
please help.

[rickenbacherus]

You will find both rsh-server and rsh-client in Debian for hdd install. If you want to do this from cd- sorry I dunno.

[tearinghairout]

Can you give us some more details of what you are trying to achieve?
Are you running from CD or installed to HD?
Are you talking about going from some external computer to your knoppix computer, or the the other way around?
What is the other computer running?
Why do you want to use rsh, why not ssh?

[uerden]

first of all, thanks for your interests.
i do not actually use rsh. i just need it for my pvm (parallel virtual machine) project. The computers communicate but but the pvm system does not accept them as hosts. it generates an error says "Rsh/Rhosts Access FAILED - "MMF6455C: Connection refused"
Make sure host MMF6455C is up and connected to
a network and check its DNS / IP address.
Also verify that MMF6455B is allowed
rsh access on MMF6455C"
that's why i am trying to use rsh.
thanks.
bye.

[baldyeti]

Is your /etc/hosts.equiv (or ~/.rhosts) setup correctly? If you do not know what I am talking about, read about rsh authentication and rhosts files. Your problem may not have anything to do with knoppix but with standard remote access rights setup.

[c123]

Isn't RSH insecure? Why not use SSH, which is very easy to set up?

[baldyeti]

rsh/rcp/rexec is unsecure, if only because the passwords travel unencrypted. But that's what the original question was about. Plus, when you trust the environment, they serve their purpose.