I have a modified version of rsh here: ftp://saf.bio.caltech.edu/pub/software/linux_or_unix_tools/rsh.c
based on inetutils 1.4.2. It added the ability to do: rsh target1,target2,target3 command but I had found that this only worked for root (even though the binary was suid root). For any other user only the first command worked. For the second and subsequent calls to rcmd() this was emitted: rcmd: socket: Permission denied After much experimentation I discovered that the lines seteuid (uid); setuid (uid); which are located at lines 609/610 in my modified variant and at 428/429 in the original code were to blame. Apparently if these are called it breaks subsequent rcmd() calls. On further experimentation I found that rsh worked without these. What is their purpose??? On an unrelated note, the -l switch on rsh seems to work just fine when directed to a Solaris rshd, but it doesn't work when directed to the rshd on Mandrake 10.0. This is from the package: rsh-server-0.17-13mdk The process attempting the rsh -l just hangs. For what it's worth the matching rsh from rsh-0.17-13mdk also hangs. Any thoughts on what might be causing that? Regards, David Mathog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Bug-inetutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-inetutils
