Installing and Configuring RSH on Linux

rsh  is used to execute commands on a remote machine.

The rsh command  executes the   command or a program in another host from current working  machine without having to login into that remote machine  by entering a password as in ssh. You can run any unix command, or a shell script of a remote host.

Requirement :-

Remote Machine access without password.

Server :- 192.168.0.10 Server.example.com

Client:-192.168.0.11 client.example.com

192.168.0.10 server.example.com

User :- test

192.168.0.11 client.example.com

User :- test1

1.Both Machine in  /etc/hosts file :-

192.168.0.10  server.example.com server

192.168.0.11 client.example.com client

2.Install some package at Server.example.com :-

# yum install xinetd

# yum install rsh-server rsh*

# rpm -qa|grep -i ^rsh-server

Server side :-

3.Now you need to Edit /root/.rhosts to add lists of hosts that can access without password. If you want to allow access to everyone without password, you need to put '+' in the file. A '+' indicates allowing everyone.

# vi /root/.rhosts

client.example.com root

cilent.example.com test1

# chmod 600 /root/.rhosts

4.test1 user access all data from server machine as a user test.:-

#vim /home/test/.rhosts

client.example.com test1

Note :-Test1 user access remote machine “server.example.com” and login as a test user.  

5.Add a full permission to use the command over the network. Plus sign will give a full permission.

vi /etc/hosts.equiv + +

6.Now you need to allow RSH , RLogin and Rexec to be used.  Open these files one by one and then set the "disable=no"

/etc/xinetd.d/rsh ,

/etc/xinetd.d/rlogin 

 /etc/xinetd.d/rexec

7. Now you need to modify the file  to allow password less  to the machine.

a)/etc/pam.d/rlogin

b)/etc/pam.d/rsh

c)/etc/pam.d/rexec

BEFORE: auth    required        pam_rhosts_auth.so

AFTER : auth    required        pam_rhosts_auth.so promiscuous

8.Enable to services :-

# chkconfig rsh on

# chkconfig rexec on

# chkconfig rlogin on

# chkconfig xinetd on

9.Restart xinetd service:-

# service xinetd restart

10.Add line in /etc/securetty :-

rsh,

rlogin

rexec

Client side :-

11.Testing  on client.example.com, rlogin and rsh to nodes without passwords:-

# yum install rsh

As a login “root” user and  run below commands :-

# rlogin 192.168.0.10

# rsh 192.168.0.10

# rsh 192.168.0.10 -l root ls -al /tmp

As a login “test1” user and run below command :-

# rsh 192.168.0.10 -l test

# rsh 192.168.0.10 -l test ls -al /tmp

# rsh 192.168.0.10 -l root

12.Copy data command  :-

# rcp –r  data test@server.example.com:

# rcp –r  file test@server.example.com:data

13.check port for rsh :-

# netstat -n --inet