How to connect Suse Linux and HP-UX?

[elthox]

Hello everybody,

I need to access from a unix machine the linux machine and vice versa. Up to now I have applied remsh command between two hp-ux machines. As far as I know linux doesnt recognize remsh command.
Is there any solution for this? What command can be applied and what file configurations (like hosts ore host.equiv) should be done?

Thanks in Advance
Elthox

[bigtomrodney]

You should have ssh on both systems. If not by default you can certainly install ssh on HP-UX. It is probably the best option for remote management.

[elthox]

Hello,

Is there any other solution for this without ssh? As I am not the administrator of HP-UX machine I cannot install anything in there. What can I do in linux server side without touching unixserver?
Another issue; I had a ftp problem. I can connect from linux to any other machine but I canot do the opposite, to connect from other servers to linux. Whats the problem?

Best Regards

[bigtomrodney]

rsh is still installed in linux as far as I know which could work to connect to HPUX. FTP is generally disabled in linux (and actually in Windows too) as it is a security risk. You can reenable it as far as I know in YaST though most people opt to use scp as it is much more secure.

[elthox]

I configured hosts, host.equiv and hosts.YaST2save but I faced this error again. It displays this message rcmd: "getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution". Is there any other configuration to be done?

Thanks