I've never used the r services, but here are some suggestions:
are the r servers actually running? pa ax, etc
are your ports open? nmap 127.0.0.1
Can you rlogin to 127.0.0.1
Can you telnet to the r-server ports either remotely, or to 127.0.0.1
When I was using mandrake, I noticed that they did something so that
services such as telnet and ftp 'waited' for 5-10 seconds before answering a
connect. I assumed this was to help prevent someone from sucessfully brute
forcing a login with an automated script. I never found out where to turn
that off, but this may be something to look for.
Cory
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From: Garl R. Grigsby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 1:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Problems with rlogin
Yes the 'r' services are running in inetd.conf. There is nothing in
host.deny. Yes I want to enable this. I running this machine on internal
network and we are sitting behind a checkpoint firewall so attacks from
external sources are not a concern. Internal attacks I am not too concerned
with as most of the people smart enough to initiate an attack already have
access to this machine. SSH is great but a rather large pain in the ass to
setup, so I want to avoid this. All of our unix workstations all use the
commands, so many scripts are already written to use these tools. Any other
ideas?
Garl
>
> Are the "r" services enabled in /etc/inetd.conf? Are they blocked in
> /etc/hosts.deny? Are you sure you want this gaping security hole, when
> you could be using ssh?
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