Make sure there are not any entries ~/.rhosts that would deny access to 
+ +.  (Where ~ is the home of the user running the rsh server)

 From the rsh man page:

"To help maintain system security, the /etc/hosts.equiv  file is  not 
checked  when  access is being attempted for super-user."

Are you trying to run commands as root (i.e. 'rsh -l root command')?

If so, create a new user in the wheel group and see if you can connect 
that way.

- Nate

Herbert Graf wrote:
> Hello all, here's an odd question, but hopefully someone here will be
> able to help.
> 
> I have a farm of machines on a trusted network that need rsh access
> (Linux Redhat 7.3).
> 
> I've enabled rsh and all is working, but the problem is twofold: rsh
> requires the machine I'm connecting from to have it's IP in hosts.equiv,
> and it needs the user to exist.
> 
> Since a variety of users from a variety of hosts will be connecting to
> these machines I need to open up rsh on them to allow connections from
> any user from any host to work (including users that don't exist on that
> particular farm machine).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> The man page of hosts.equiv says adding + + should do it, but it doesn't
> appear to work.
> 
> I've tried numerous google searches but since most people want to
> INCREASE the security of their boxes I'm swimming against the
> current! :)
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> TTYL
> 
> 
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