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Yeah, I did the same thing and it works great.
I have the .rhosts file in the user home directory. Is there a better
and more secure place to keep it? All rsh/rlogin/rexec connections can
enter the machine only through the interface configured using private
address. The other interfaces have been firewalled.
TIA
On 8/16/06, Carl <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 11:03 15/08/2006, [email protected] wrote:
>
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I have two linux machines running CentOS 4.3 with kernel version
> >2.6.9-34.0.2EL. Each of the machines have two interfaces. One
> >interface is 1000 mbps and while the other one is 100mbps. I have
> >connected the 100mbps interface of both the machines to my network
> >switch and assigned them static public IP addresses given to me by the
> >network admin. I have connected the 1000mbps interfaces of both
> >machines together using a cross over cable and assigned the interfaces
> >private IPs namely 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3. I have stopped the
> >firewall running at both the machines and allows all kinds of traffic.
> >I have installed the rsh-server package on both the machines and
> >enabled services like rsh, rlogin, rexec. I know about the
> >vulnerabilities of doing so and disabling the firewall. This is just a
> >test setup. I verified that the two machines can communicate using
> >both the 100mbps interfaces as well as the private ip addresses. I can
> >do rlogin/rsh/rexec between the two machines if i use the 100mbps
> >interfaces. I can also do rlogin/rsh between the two machines using
> >the private IP addresses (i.e. 1000mbps interfaces). However when i
> >try to rexec between the private IP addresses, i get an error that
> >"Where are you?" and connection lost. Why is it that i can do rexec
> >between the two machines using the 100mbps interfaces with static
> >public IP addresses but cannot do so using the private IP addresses.
> >Other services have no problem with this. I request if somebody can
> >help me out with this.
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
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> On machine A, have only a dns/host entry for machine B mapping to the
> private ip and vice versa on the other machine.
>
> Also have you got .rhosts files setup in the home directory of the
> user that is receiving the rsh/rexec etc...
>
>
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