SUMMARY: YASSP disabling rsh and rcp?

The answer was that YASSP also disables the rsh entry in the /etc/pam.conf
file.  I uncommented the entry and it rsh and rcp worked correctly.

Thanks goes to:

Leonid S. Knyshov
BKerr
Alan Orndorff
BAUMLER Julie L
Rob Wynne

for your quick responses and suggestions.

- Steven.


On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Steven Sakata wrote:

> I installed YASSP (Yet Another Solaris Security Package) from yassp.org on
> a Solaris 7 box, and I'm trying to get rsh and rcp commands to work beween
> systems.
>
> I've set up the /etc/hosts entries, set up the .rhost file, enabled inetd
> from running, and I've enabled in.rshd in /etc/inetd.conf.  However, I always
> get "permission denied" when I try to rsh or rcp from the remote system.
>
> I suspect it's something YASSP is doing, because I tried doing it between
> systems that I have not installed YASSP, and it works fine.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> Thanks in advance, Steven.
>
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