{"id":18,"date":"2005-06-07T15:47:46","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T22:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2005-06-07T15:47:46","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T22:47:46","slug":"enable-password-fee-rsh-guest-on-redhat-fedora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/07\/enable-password-fee-rsh-guest-on-redhat-fedora\/","title":{"rendered":"enable password fee rsh guest on redhat fedora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An easy way to run things on remote machines in unix has been the &#8216;rsh&#8217; command.<br \/>\nFor instance:<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\nrsh -l guest remote-machine command-to-run-on-that-machine<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\nwould execute the command on the other machine. Of course things need to be set up for that. It used to be simple, but the default installs<br \/>\nfor redhat redhat (and possible other installs) need a bit of tweaking. Here a quick and dirty recipe. This openes the machine to the public,<br \/>\nso don&#8217;t do it on any computer exposed to the internet or a bunch of untrustworthy users.<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nuseradd guess<br \/>\n(remove !! from \/etc\/shadow for user gues)<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>A user guest with no password exists. Cool and scary. Up to you.<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nrpm -i rsh-server-0.17-21.i386.rpm<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Versions might be different, check if it does already exist<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n(set disabled=\"off\" to disabled=\"on\" in \/etc\/xinetd.d\/rsh)<br \/>\nkillall -HUP xinetd<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\nTell xinetd that it is allowed to start rshd if an incoming connection is being made.<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\ncp \/etc\/pam.d\/login \/etc\/pam.d\/rsh<br \/>\n<\/code><code><br \/>\nThis is a true hack for people that don't know what they are doing. I have no idea what<br \/>\nthe side effects are of this. It worked for what I had to do, but it might be completely<br \/>\ninapproiate.<\/p>\n<p>From now on you can do things on that machine as the user 'guest'.<\/p>\n<p><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An easy way to run things on remote machines in unix has been the &#8216;rsh&#8217; command. For instance: rsh -l guest remote-machine command-to-run-on-that-machine would execute the command on the other machine. Of course things need to be set up for that. 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