root rsh permission denied - solution

For future readers via a google search:

To allow linux root rsh access, after checking hosts.allow, hosts.deny,
/root/.rhosts etc. etc., you need to enter rsh and perhaps rexec
to /etc/securetty.

Don S wrote:
>
> For future readers via a google search:
>
> To allow linux root rsh access, after checking hosts.allow, hosts.deny,
> /root/.rhosts etc. etc., you need to enter rsh and perhaps rexec
> to /etc/securetty.

This is a bad idea.

Use ssh instead. If you require passwordless access, use RSA key
authentication.

It's almost always possible to avoid having to use root for such
purposes too. Use su and/or sudo.

Regards, Ian

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> This is a bad idea.


....but it's not a real, real bad one with smoke
and flames coming out of it )

Don