Anyone know why we can not rsh to a sun box (solaris 7) from out
machines running suse 9 but can from our machine running suse 8.2 ???
Was there some kind of change in defaults/security that we are missing???

thanks,
Voigt

I should also have pointed out that all setting on the sun end are the
same for all machines involved in this the account, .rhosts etc... other
logins, like telnet work fine, it is really just the rsh with the
..rhosts priledged access that isn't working from suse-9..
~Voigt

voigt Lander wrote:

> Anyone know why we can not rsh to a sun box (solaris 7) from out
> machines running suse 9 but can from our machine running suse 8.2 ???
> Was there some kind of change in defaults/security that we are missing???
>
> thanks,
> Voigt
>

"voigt Lander" <voigt691@netscape-nospam.net> wrote in message
news:c58lo5$j1p$1@nntp-stjh-01-01.rogers.nf.net...
> I should also have pointed out that all setting on the sun end are the
> same for all machines involved in this the account, .rhosts etc... other
> logins, like telnet work fine, it is really just the rsh with the
> .rhosts priledged access that isn't working from suse-9..
> ~Voigt
>
> voigt Lander wrote:
>
> > Anyone know why we can not rsh to a sun box (solaris 7) from out
> > machines running suse 9 but can from our machine running suse 8.2 ???
> > Was there some kind of change in defaults/security that we are
missing???

I don't know SuSE specifically, but there have been considerable advances in
the iptables firewall over the last few years. I'd be unsurprised if one box
has iptables running and not the other, or if rsh is now blocked by SuSE as
a stupid port to use and SSH is left open instead.

Can you run SSH on the Solaris box? I know old versions of OpenSSH will
compile under Solaris 7, even though you should update that pretty soon if
possible.

voigt Lander wrote:
> I should also have pointed out that all setting on the sun end are the
> same for all machines involved in this the account, .rhosts etc... other
> logins, like telnet work fine, it is really just the rsh with the
> .rhosts priledged access that isn't working from suse-9..
> ~Voigt
>
> voigt Lander wrote:
>
>> Anyone know why we can not rsh to a sun box (solaris 7) from out
>> machines running suse 9 but can from our machine running suse 8.2 ???
>> Was there some kind of change in defaults/security that we are missing???
>>
>> thanks,
>> Voigt
>>
>

I'm going to take a guess and say that your Solaris 7 box doesn't have
ipv6. You might try that.. either adding to Sol 7 or eliminating
from Linux.