Re: FC5 and rlogin/rsh/rcp

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:06:53 +1200, Jeffrey Ross wrote:

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?

I'm afraid you have.

Xinetd isn't enabled upon installation because you need the
opportunity to configure stuff like hosts.allow and hosts.deny before
you open your server for business.

The preferred method, instead of all that horrid editing, is to use
the infrastructure already in place:

# service xinetd start

starts the service for *this* boot, and

# chkconfig xinetd on

will cause xinetd to start on the *next* boot.

HTH
.

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