Re: FC5 and rlogin/rsh/rcp

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<1143779308.980559@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jeffrey Ross wrote:

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

It may not be a concern in your environment, but it certainly is for the
rest of us. The Berkeley 'r' command aren't even used at Berkeley any
more.

I wonder if this service is being made difficult to use on purpose or if
I missed some relevant setting in the installation?

I suspect it is being made difficult just for that reason. Look back to
Red Hat 3.0.3, and you had sendmail wide open by default, formail all set
to be used to relay spam... in those days, it was actually more common
for spam to be coming from a r00ted Red Hat box than a windoze zombie. As
a result, Red Hat started tightening up. There was a huge cry when the
open relay function was disabled in RH 5.0, and even more cries about
sendmail only listening on localhost starting in RH7.1. There is another
operating system called OpenBSD that claims to have been never r00ted in
the out-of-box configuration. The reason is quite simple - in the out-of-box
mode, _NOTHING_ is running. If you want to run a service, you have to figure
out how - there is no st00pid icon to click on to drop your pants.

Now I'll have to go and find an xinetd startup/shutdown script...

In your second post, you talk of editing /etc/rc.2.d - not very many
people use runlevel 2. I suspect you really mean runlevel 3 or 5.

Old guy
.

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