rsh does not work

I have Debian installed on two PCs and want to perform rsh between
them.

Following phenomena:
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- PC 1 can issue rsh commands on PC 2 but not vice versa. ("rsh: could
not make a connection, connection refused")

- rsh localhost does not work on neither PC


What I did so far:
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First I installed rsh-client and rsh-server on both machines.
Later I found out that Debian developers recommend to use the new
packages rsh-redone-client and rsh-redone-server instead. So I
installed them (and removed the standard rsh packages). But no
changes...

I checked
~/.rhosts (contains both machines and usernames, and I made also
chmod 600)

/etc/hosts.allow (both hosts entered)
/etc/hosts.deny (no host entered)
/etc/hosts.equiv (both hosts entered)
/etc/inet.conf entries (services in.rshd enabled)

... but it does not work....

Thanks for any help

Herbert Haas wrote:

> I have Debian installed on two PCs and want to perform rsh between
> them.

Why would you ever want to use rsh (it's insecure, passwords transmitted
over the network in clear-text)? I would suggest using ssh. apt-get
install ssh should install the required client and server binaries.

> - PC 1 can issue rsh commands on PC 2 but not vice versa. ("rsh: could
> not make a connection, connection refused")

Is the rsh "server" listed in your inetd.conf or xinetd.conf?

Take a look at SSH (see http://www.openssh.org/), as it includes all of
the features found in rsh, and more.

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Herbert Haas <admin@localhost.com> wrote
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> - PC 1 can issue rsh commands on PC 2 but not vice versa. ("rsh: could
> not make a connection, connection refused")

Check your /etc/inetd.conf file for rsh line.

Add the client hostname in the /etc/hosts.allow file, check also the
/etc/hosts.deny file. Use 'man tcpd', 'man hosts.allow', 'man hosts.deny'
and 'man hosts.equiv' for full configuration detail.

And use ssh instead of rsh. ssh is more secure and easier to configure.

Regards