On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 05:06:43PM -0400, Wandered Inn wrote:
> "Michael H. Warfield" wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 03:23:07PM -0400, Wandered Inn wrote:
> > > I've recently migrated to a new laptop and subsquently installed
> > > Mandrake 7.0. Prior to the new laptop, I would rsh commands to my old
> > > laptop so I could work from a single monitor for multiple computers. I
> > > can not get this new laptop to permit rsh. I've got .rhosts setup,
> > > xhosts adding the machines. All set up just like my other box. No go.
> > > I've been digging through both the X admin guide and user's guide from
> > > Oreilly, but have not discovered a solution.
> > > What am I missing? Is it something Mandrake is doing different?
> > A clue?
> > Yeah... Mandrake, like TurboLinux and a few other distros are
> > setting up things more securely than their lame embarrasments of the past.
> > But... Don't use rsh! Ssh works just as well as rsh and isn't
> > a glaring security hole scream "come kick me".
> Shame on me. :) That was going to be my next question (can ssh do rsh
> for me).
Yes and a whole lot more.
> > In any case, more and more of the manufactures are wising up and
> > setting /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny to their most restrictive
> > reasonable configuration. That generally means deny is ALL:ALL and allow
> > is local:ALL. That's probably you problem (and you would have to change
> > that for ssh anyways).
> Both hosts.deny and hosts.allow are empty, any other clues?
Ooopppsss... Guess I was giving Mandrake more credit that what
they deserved. I don't know. I know that I always disable rsh, rlogin,
and rexec first, then install ssh (preferably openssh) and then if it
doesn't succeed, I use the verbose mode of ssh to debug it. Just run
it with -v and see where it bitches. Doing that with rsh? Don't know,
don't care to know. The correct configuration tool for rsh is "rm -f".
> > Go to www.openssh.org and get OpenSSH. Don't use LAME obsolete
> > applications that are nothing more that security holes on a stick!
> I'm on to get ssh...
Good deal.
> > > --
> > > Until later: Geoffrey ">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com
> > > I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
> > > Y2K...
> >
> > Mike
> > --
> > Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | ">mhw@WittsEnd.com
> > (The Mad Wizard) | (770) 331-2437 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/
> > NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all
> > PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
>
> --
> Until later: Geoffrey                ">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com
>
> I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
> Y2K...
Mike
--
Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | ">mhw@WittsEnd.com
(The Mad Wizard) | (770) 331-2437 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/
NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all
PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
--
To unsubscribe: mail ">majordomo@ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message body.