RSHD(8)

NAME
rshd - remote shell server

SYNOPSIS
rshd [-aiklnvxPL] [-p port]

DESCRIPTION
rshd is the server for the rsh(1) program. It provides an authenticated remote command execution service. Supported options are:

    -n, --no-keepalive Disables keep-alive messages. Keep-alives are packets sent at certain intervals to make sure that the client is still there, even when it doesn't send any data.

    -k, --kerberos Assume that clients connecting to this server will use some form of Kerberos authentication. See the EXAMPLES section for a sample inetd.conf(5) configuration.

    -x, --encrypt For Kerberos 4 this means that the connections are encrypted. Kerberos 5 can negotiate encryption even without this option, but if it's present rshd will deny unencrypted connections. This option implies -k.

    -v, --vacuous If the connecting client does not use any Kerberised authentication, print a message that complains about this fact, and exit. This is helpful if you want to move away from old port-based authentication.

    -P When using the AFS filesystem, users' authentication tokens are put in something called a PAG (Process Authentication Group). Multiple processes can share a PAG, but normally each login session has its own PAG. This option disables the setpag() call, so all tokens will be put in the default (uid-based) PAG, making it possible to share tokens between sessions. This is only useful in peculiar environments, such as some batch systems.

    -i, --no-inetd The -i option will cause rshd to create a socket, instead of assuming that its stdin came from inetd(8). This is mostly useful for debugging.

    -p port, --port=port Port to use with -i.

    -a This flag is for backwards compatibility only.

    -L This flag enables logging of connections to syslogd(8). This option is always on in this implementation.

FILES
/etc/hosts.equiv
~/.rhosts

EXAMPLES
The following can be used to enable Kerberised rsh in inetd.cond(5), while disabling non-Kerberised connections:

    shell   stream  tcp  nowait  root  /usr/libexec/rshd  rshd -v
    kshell  stream  tcp  nowait  root  /usr/libexec/rshd  rshd -k
    ekshell stream  tcp  nowait  root  /usr/libexec/rshd  rshd -kx

SEE ALSO
rsh(1), iruserok(3)

HISTORY
The rshd command appeared in 4.2BSD.

AUTHORS
This implementation of rshd was written as part of the Heimdal Kerberos 5 implementation.