Using HP-UX Internet Services (August 2003)

Distributing Files Using rdist

Setting Up remsh

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Setting Up remsh

rdist uses remsh as the mechanism for distributing ﬁles over the

network. In order to use rdist, you must set up remsh on all the remote

hosts. To set up remsh, perform the following steps on each of the remote

hosts:

1. Create an entry for the master host in the $HOME/.rhosts ﬁle of the

user who runs rdist.

For example, if rdist is run by the root user, create an entry for the

master host in the root’s .rhosts ﬁle (/.rhosts) on each remote

hosts.

NOTE On each remote host, ensure that the following entry is

uncommented in the /etc/inetd.conf ﬁle (that is, ensure that this

entry is not preceded by #).

shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/remshd remshd

2. Issue the following command to force inetd to reread its

conﬁguration ﬁle:

/usr/sbin/inetd -c

Authentication for remsh and rexec Services

Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) for authentication is

supported on HP-UX. PAM support enables users who are not listed in

the /etc/passwd ﬁle to use the rexec and remsh services. It also enables

you to use authentication methods other than the standard UNIX

authentication mechanisms such as distributed Computing Environment

(DCE) integrated login and Kerberos.

The rexecd and remshd services use the authentication mechanism

speciﬁed in the OTHER directive of the /etc/pam.conf ﬁle. To use other

authentication methods, you must edit the /etc/pam.conf ﬁle.