rlogin in Fedora 7

Dear all,

I installed Fedora 7 and wanted to enable "rlogin" and "rsh" for some
testing of the older software which do not support ssh. I succeeded in
setting rsh without prompting for password (by using .rhosts), but I was
held in rlogin. Every time I called rsh from I remote machine without a
trailing command, I was asked for password. I checked the /var/log/secure
and found the following messages:

Jan 16 08:54:09 test rlogind[11388]: pam_rhosts_auth(rlogin:auth): allowed
to user1234@node22 as user
Jan 16 08:54:09 test rlogind[11388]: PAM audit_open() failed: Permission
denied
Jan 16 08:54:09 test rlogind[11389]: PAM audit_open() failed: Permission
denied
Jan 16 08:54:11 test login: pam_unix(remote:session): session opened for
user user1234 by (uid=0)
Jan 16 08:54:11 test login: LOGIN ON pts/1 BY user1234 FROM node22

I suppose I've missed some settings on the rlogind. I allowed ports 513 and
514 on the firewall already. Are there any further settings? Thanks a lot!

Best Regards,
LaBird (Benny).
[Email: remove the underscores for the correct email address.]

"LaBird" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> I installed Fedora 7 and wanted to enable "rlogin" and "rsh" for some
> testing of the older software which do not support ssh. I succeeded in
> setting rsh without prompting for password (by using .rhosts), but I was
> held in rlogin. Every time I called rsh from I remote machine without a
> trailing command, I was asked for password. I checked the /var/log/secure
> and found the following messages:
>
> Jan 16 08:54:09 test rlogind[11388]: pam_rhosts_auth(rlogin:auth): allowed
> to user1234@node22 as user
> Jan 16 08:54:09 test rlogind[11388]: PAM audit_open() failed: Permission
> denied
> Jan 16 08:54:09 test rlogind[11389]: PAM audit_open() failed: Permission
> denied
> Jan 16 08:54:11 test login: pam_unix(remote:session): session opened for
> user user1234 by (uid=0)
> Jan 16 08:54:11 test login: LOGIN ON pts/1 BY user1234 FROM node22

This is from RHEL 4, but it should help you with FC 7, to get
rsh going, add 'rsh' to /etc/securetty (if you want remote root access)

Check /etc/pam.d and make sure you have an entry for rsh:
---
#%PAM-1.0
# For root login to succeed here with pam_securetty, "rsh" must be
# listed in /etc/securetty.
auth required pam_nologin.so
auth required pam_securetty.so
auth required pam_env.so
auth sufficient pam_rhosts_auth.so
account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
----

I believe that should get you through!

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