FC5 and rlogin/rsh/rcp

I'm upgrading from RH8 to FC5 and have installed "Servers/LeacyNetwork"
because this explicitly includes rlogin, telnet, etc, but rlogind wasn't
installed. Yes, I know they're not secure, but that's not a concern in my
environment - I'm certainly not going to allow Linux on a workstation to
dictate the login program used on the non-Linux servers and their
applications on our isolated network. I say this to avoid wasting the time
of security-crazed newsgroup posters - please don't bother. ;-)

So I installed CD#5 Fedora/RPMS/rsh-server-0.17-34.1.i386.rpm and got the
files that I wanted. However I then found that I was missing xinetd, so I
installed CD#3 Fedora/RPMS/xinetd-2.3.13-6.2.1.i386.rpm. That was good,
except that xinetd was not set up to run automatically on system boot. When
I ran xinetd manually (having commented out the disable lines in
/etc/xinetd.d/rlogin, etc), I was able to log in remotely. I wonder if this
service is being made difficult to use on purpose or if I missed some
relevant setting in the installation? Now I'll have to go and find an
xinetd startup/shutdown script...

For those who want to do this too and get stuck at this point I suspect that
securetty sill needs set up (which I had already done):
Create /etc/securetty with lines as follows:
rsh
rlogin
pts/0
pts/1
and so on for each port that you intend to connect from, including tty0,
tty1, etc

Good luck - you might need it!
Alternatively, prayer is infinitely more reliable than luck...



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