rsh, rlogin, rcp question

[Mike Cantrell]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Buettner" <kev@primenet.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: rsh, rlogin, rcp question


> On Jul 28, 12:56am, der.hans wrote:
>
> > What's rcmd? Is it doing the rsh thing?
>
> As I recall (from many years ago), rcmd uses a different protocol than
> rsh.  It is not used very much anymore because it is even less secure
> than rsh.
>
> As for the Bill Warner's question, I agree with you that there
> may be an alternately named command which implements rsh as we know
> it in Linux-land.  But I also agree with Mike Cantrell who asserts
> that Bill really ought to be using ssh anyway.  It should be easy to
> build ssh binaries for the SCO box.
>
> Finally, it may be possible to use SCO's rcmd with a linux box by
> going into /etc/inetd.conf and enabling the line which runs
> in.rexecd.  On the linux side, it may be possible to run a remote
> command on a SCO box through the use of the rexec command.
>
> Kevin
>

The following (taken from the SCO rcmd man page) indicates that rcmd is
SCO's version of rsh.

  Limitations
  ===========

  rshd(ADMN) must be running on the target machine.

  In other installations, this command is called rsh.


Regards,
Mike Cantrell