On Mon, Nov/03/2008 03:11:14PM, James Carlson wrote:
> Ethan Mallove writes:
> > I have a Solaris 10 machine that I am able to sudo RSH to. I am not able to
> > do the same on my OpenSolaris machine (due to a "Connection refused"
> > error), even though it looks like my sshd_config, ssh_config, and .rhosts
> > files are the same on both machines. I notice OpenSolaris uses Sun_SSH_1.2,
> > whereas Solaris 10 has Sun_SSH_1.1. Is that the cause of the different
> > behavior?
>
> Ssh and rsh aren't related to each other. Which one are you asking
> about?
>
> Assuming it's rsh, the reason you're getting "connection refused" is
> that the service is disabled by default. Do this, and it should work
> better:
>
> svcadm enable svc:/network/shell:default
> svcadm enable svc:/network/login:rlogin
>
Thanks! I can now RSH.
> Note that 'rsh' is (in a sense) two different protocols. When you
> issue "rsh hostname" from the command line, it actually runs rlogin
> instead -- which is that second service listed above. The true RSH
> protocol runs only when you provide a remote command to run ("rsh
> hostname ls").
>
> I wouldn't recommend doing this -- these old protocols are not secure
> at all -- but if you're sure it's what you want anyway ...
>
RSH will suffice for our lab environment.
> If you're actually talking about ssh, then after changing the
> configuration files, you have to restart the service. Did you do
> that?
>
So for the new SSH config files to take effect, would I do
this?
# svcadm restart svc:/network/ssh:default
-Ethan
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