I can able to login as root by SSH, But not by RSH or telnet. I enabled krb5-Telnet and klogin to disable = no I restrted the XINETD. Error Message : login: root Password for root: Login incorrect Connection closed by foreign host. Password works fine with SSH but not with Telnet or Rsh Rlogin Error: [root@rhel40] # rlogin localhost Trying krb4 rlogin... krb_sendauth failed: You have no tickets cached trying normal rlogin (/usr/bin/rlogin) Please can some one help me. System Admin

I do not use any of these, and I may be of little help, but I have to ask this: SSH is a secure method of connecting to a remote computer. Telnet and RSH are much less secure to the point that they are regarded by many as truly insecure. When used on a tightly secured LAN, they may be of limited usefulness, but I would not recommend their use in any other situation. Why would you need or want to use either of them, especially to perform administrative tasks? If system security is of any importance at all, I suggest you stick with using SSH to log in as root. My 2 cents, Ernie Registered Linux User 247790 ICQ 41060744

Have you started the rsh and telnet services? They are separate services, not included in xinetd.

Thanks for your response guys. I checked the services, RSH and Telnet are up and running. I disables kerberos and tried the same error. Any other solution.??

If telnet/rsh services are up, then u try to login as user and then use su to login as root, do not log directly as root

you can go directlly as root , no problem thease telnet and rsh are diferent protocol, must have different problem. For telnet as a root user in remote machine. 1>go to remote machine, login with any other user other then root, go with "su" to root. 2>#cd /etc #mv securetty securetty.bak #exit now you can directlly login from root user For RSH or RCP. 1>check rsh service is running or not through #chkconfig rsh if it on then 2>in remote machine some file should must have an entry of this machine name or IP, the file name are #vi /etc/hosts #vi /etc/hosts.equive #vi /etc/hosts.equiv #pwd root #vi .rhosts if you need rsh for any user then you have to create .rhosts in there home directory and enter this machine IP. Hopefully it will work, reply after doing the same. regards Rashid Mustafa