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Subject: Re: Fw: rdist Alternatives
In-Reply-To: <01bce94a$976a2960$65df8bcd@is01.vafibre.com> from John Brown at "Nov 4, 97 12:53:43 pm"
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From: "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com>
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If moving password files and such I prefer "scp" from the ssh distribution.
It does encryption over the wire and compression.

I do wish it had the intelligence of rdist though....

Did you check that "exec" was enabled in inetd.conf? This is diferent that
rlogind that rlogin uses.


-David Langford

>I have been working for a couple of weeks now to get rdist to work and have
>been very unsuccessful.
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>So now on to the next option. I need to duplicate my password db to my
>secondary radius server. Are there other utilities that I can use to make
>this happen?
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>rdist info -- In case someone is interested. I started with a 2.1.x box and
>was able to get it to transfer files from this machine to a 2.2.2 box but
>could never get it going the other way. So being the smart individual that I
>am I upgrade the 2.1.x box to 2.2.5 now -- well you guessed it...Now it
>doesn't work either way. When running with the debug flag it appears to bomb
>at the first rsh that is executed with a 'permission denied' at this point I
>have checked everything that I can think of and am at a loss. rlogin will
>work both way's but rsh and rcp AND rdist will not. (all die with the same
>message 'Permission Denied'). Nothing in the messages log, NOTHING
>AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!
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>God I Love Unix!!! ;)
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