This brings up a question I've always wondered but never asked, how does
ssh work with .rhosts like functionality? For example, rsh lets you
remote shell in with no passwords, with SSH it usually either asks you the
password for the login ID, or your SSH Private Key password. I've never
seen it allow no password logins before, which you'd need to get rsh like
functionality.
I suppose you could make null password keys, is that the way to get around
it?
Matt
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 01:53:59PM -0500, Carey F. Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Alan Mead wrote:
>
> > I've done this years ago but not since. On my private LAN at home behind a
> > firewall I want to allow some processes to logon without
> > authentication. One of the machines is running RH 6.0 (the other RH 6.2)
> > and for now will not run OpenSSH so I'll start with rsh.
>
> OK, just so long as you know that this is a bad choice. Though behind a
> firewall on your home lan is probably not the greatest security risk. I
> strongly suggest using ssh and .shosts, etc.
>
> Anyway, do the following
>
> 1) Check to make sure /etc/hosts.equiv has the client ip addresses.
> 2) Uncomment the following line in /etc/inetd.conf ...
>
> #shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rshd
>
> 3) Restart tcp wrappers via
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet stop
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet start
>
> That should do it. If you have problems after that, check the permissions on
> .rhosts.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Carey
>
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