How to enable rlogin

[santhosh_qa]

Hi,

Currenlty am working on SuSE ES 9.0.

Me trying to connect to another SusE machine using rlogin, but it throws the message access denied.

Me want solution for the below mentioned things:
1) how to enable rlogin service (i can see xinetd process is up, but unable to see in.rlogind process)
2) What is the format of .rhosts file. Do we need to have it on both the machines (source and target).

[sdousley]

if i remember correctly rlogin is basically ssh. The SuSE ES should have an sshd started, try

ssh <ip of server>

with port 22 open on the server's firewall

[santhosh_qa]

I can login using ssh (port 22), but i need it using "rlogin" (port 513).
In /etc/service file, rlogin will be displayed as "login"

[ghostis]

In.rshd is part of the rsh-server package. If 'which in.rshd" returns nothing, you need to install that package. Once it is installed, enable it with 'chkconfig rsh on' and then restart xinetd with '/etc/init.d/xinetd restart'. This will activate it. Now it may still be blocked by the your firewall. In that case you will need to let through ports 512, 513, and 514 tcp.

Hope this helps.

-ghostis