From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 29 22:10:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB4B16A41F for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:10:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu (server.t-hosting.hu [217.20.133.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA6943D62 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:10:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFDCF997746; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:10:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.t-hosting.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18039-01-13; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:10:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [80.98.156.20] (catv-50629c14.catv.broadband.hu [80.98.156.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACEA299741D; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:10:39 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42EAA95F.3060503@t-hosting.hu> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:10:39 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hal References: <46F46F5A-5AFD-49FB-A19E-7FEFDE74C278@cc.usu.edu> In-Reply-To: <46F46F5A-5AFD-49FB-A19E-7FEFDE74C278@cc.usu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rshd vs 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:10:46 -0000 hal wrote: > Trying to connect to my new backup server running 5.4 using rsh fails. > > It worked well on my old backup server running 4.7 P25. > > inetd.conf has the /usr/libexec/rshd line un-commented. > > hosts.allow permits the remote host to connect to rshd. > > The rsh file in /etc/pam.d has been patched by hand and looks good. > > The message I am getting after some timeout period is: > > server.host.name: Connection refused > > It appears that inetd, which is running by the way, is not starting > rshd. > > Can anyone give me a pointer or two to get this thing working? > > hal Unfortunately, I don't know the solution for your problem, but I'm really intersted what's the point in using rshd? SSH is more common and it is secure. Security is not necessary in a trusted subnet, but sshd would suffice your needs. And FreeBSD is shipped with a working sshd configurations, what You have to do is only enabling it in rc.conf. Cheers, Gábor Kövesdán