Re: Problem with rsh

[David Rothenberger <daveroth at acm dot org>]

Check your /etc/passwd file and make sure there is no entry in the
password field (the second field).  You want something like this:

someuser::11150:...

and not something like this:

someuser:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11150:...

An easy way to check if this is the culprit is to try doing an
rlogin.  For me, this will ask me for a password and then succeed if
I have an entry in the password field.  If the password field is
empty, it succeeds without asking for a password.

Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> 
> I've run into a major problem using rsh. Note that I've been using rsh
> successfully for a while and many people here depend on being able to
> rsh into the server. However now I get:
> 
> $ rsh server id
> server.mydomain.com: Permission denied.

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