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Make sure your rcp, rsh are suid root as it needs to access privileged ports.

Mitch

I can't seem to get rcp to work from a non-Linux host to my Linux box. Rsh
and rlogin work fine from this host to Linux. My login ID's and password's
are identical on both systems. In addition, I have .rhosts setup fine. When I
try to do an rcp to the Linux system I get "rcmd: socket: Permission denied".
I thought rcp and rsh used the same permissions. I have no problem at all do
rsh. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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.rhosts:
your.ip.name.address _SPACE_ userName

permissions of .rhosts should be set correctly: chmod 600 .rhosts !!

I'm using the standard Slackware 2.1 setup (kernel 1.2.8).

Hope this helps
Sebastian
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What do you have in your rhosts and hosts.equiv files ? Is it the FQDN or
just the hostname, and what does your /etc/hosts and /etc/hosts.conf
say ? I.e. does the first hostname for your ip (not aliases) match
what is in your rhosts ?

Mitch

: Make sure your rcp, rsh are suid root as it needs to access privileged ports.

I have a similar problem as John, except I am trying to use rcp between
2 linux boxes connected with slip.  I can connect just fine and use
telnet or ftp, but rsh and rcp just give the message "Permission
denied.".  Both rcp and rsh are suid root as sugggested above.  I think
I have the .rhosts, and even /etc/hosts.equiv set up properly, but I
still can't rcp.  Does anybody have any other suggestions on how I can
trace the problem down?

Thanks in advance.

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: What do you have in your rhosts and hosts.equiv files ? Is it the FQDN or
: just the hostname, and what does your /etc/hosts and /etc/hosts.conf
: say ? I.e. does the first hostname for your ip (not aliases) match
: what is in your rhosts ?

Oops, it doesn't match.  I'll change them around and try again.

Thanks for the information.

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