"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).
>
> 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?
>
> 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...
>
> > --
> > Until later: Geoffrey ">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com
>
> > I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
> > Y2K...
>
> Mike
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Until later: Geoffrey                ">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com
I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
Y2K...
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