I'm trying to script a backup solution, and need to automatically run a command on the server from the client. Unfortunately the server doesn't support ssh or rsh. Is there some other way to issue a command, short of running telnet with an expect script?

 

Thanks,

David

Well rsh is there, but not turned on in inetd.conf.  ssh would be better & we'll try to roll that into the security release.

Is this what my inetd.conf line should look like?

 

shell  stream  tcp    nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.rshd

 

and then restart inetd with "/etc/rc.d/rc.inetd restart"?

 

I tried that and this command when run from the client just hangs:

 

rsh -l root 192.168.1.4 ls

 

This command on the client

 

rsh -l root localhost 'ls /root'

 

says "Permission denied". Sorry, I guess this is probably some Slackware config issue I don't know how to resolve.

I think you have to make it look like this:

 

shell   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.rshd -h

Yes, that's right. Also, /root/.rhosts has to list the client machine or IP, and it must have permissions of 600. This allows me to rsh from localhost. I'm still trying to get rsh to work from the client.

Well I'm stumped. I put the IP of my client machine in /root/.rhosts and it still won't connect.

 

It looks like rshd is hearing my remote connection, since this is in my /var/log/secure:

 

in.rshd[3929]: connect from 192.168.1.9 (192.168.1.9)

 

But I'm also seeing this in my system log:

 

rshd[3441]: connect second port: Connection timed out

 

This may be a FreeBSD rsh bug. I found this problem report.

 

Also, remote rlogin works fine, but of course rlogin doesn't let me run any command

Bump. Has anyone gotten any kind of remote command to work? Help?