Need a refresher on the Berkeley r-commands

Hello,

It has been ages since I did this, so bear with me.

I need to temporarily set up the old-fashioned Berkeley r-commands in
my Linux server (yes, I am using ssh these days).

I vaguely remember these steps:

- I used to add the name of the allowed hosts in:

/etc/hosts (or was it /etc/rhosts)?

- There was a dot file in the user home directory that could be used,
too. Was it .rhosts??

- I used to create a hard link to some executable somewhere (?) with
the name of the target host, so I could type this:

% somehost date

Can somebody please review the above steps??

I created the file below with the filename /etc/xinetd.d/rsh. I sent a
HUP to the xinetd, but the rsh or rcp command do not work.

The following commands fail to show a listener in port 514:

% netstat -an | grep 514

-Ramon

---------------------------------

service rsh
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/bin/rsh
server_args = --daemon
log_on_failure += USERID
}

On Jul 13, 2:56 pm, Ramon F Herrera <ra... DeleteThis @conexus.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It has been ages since I did this, so bear with me.
>
> I need to temporarily set up the old-fashioned Berkeley r-commands in
> my Linux server (yes, I am using ssh these days).
>
> I vaguely remember these steps:
>
> - I used to add the name of the allowed hosts in:
>
> /etc/hosts (or was it /etc/rhosts)?
>
> - There was a dot file in the user home directory that could be used,
> too. Was it .rhosts??
>
> - I used to create a hard link to some executable somewhere (?) with
> the name of the target host, so I could type this:
>
> % somehost date
>
> Can somebody please review the above steps??
>
> I created the file below with the filename /etc/xinetd.d/rsh. I sent a
> HUP to the xinetd, but the rsh or rcp command do not work.
>
> The following commands fail to show a listener in port 514:
>
> % netstat -an | grep 514
>
> -Ramon
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> service rsh
> {
>         disable         = no
>         socket_type     = stream
>         wait            = no
>         user            = root
>         server          = /usr/bin/rsh
>         server_args     = --daemon
>         log_on_failure  += USERID
>
> }
>
>

I guess my main question is:

Where the heck is rshd??

-Ramon