rsh crazyness

[Dan Lund]

I agree, use ssh as the tunnel.

I do this with all of my backups of 50+ machines, and it works great.

--rsh=ssh -C" as an argument.
I have ssh keys set on every machine so it's key authentication.

--Dan

On 9/21/05, Tony Wasson <ajwasson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/21/05, Sean Roe <sean at azbiz.net> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am loosing my mind over this one.  I have two linux boxes 1) Slackware
> >  10.0 server and a Debian 3.1 client.  I am trying to rsync a directory on
> > the Slack box from the Deb box and I keep getting permission denied.  I
> > can rsh (I know all about ssh but it is way to slow for this application
> > and its on a secure network) to the box and I get logged on.  But when I
> > try to run a remote command like "rsh slackware1 date"  I get permissioned
> > denied.  Can somebody please help me as I am not a Slackware user.
>
> Since you aren't concerned with security and want more speed, why not
> run a rsync as a server? With ssh and rsh, you are using a remote
> shell program as the transport. If you insist on using rsh, double
> check your server logs.
>
> from the man page for rsync:
> "It is also possible to use rsync without a remote shell as the
> transport. In this case you will connect to a  remote rsync server
> running on TCP port 873".
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