[Discuss] hosts.equiv

[Jerry Natowitz]

If you are confident in the security of your local net, and you don't want to use ssh, you have two choice: rsh or running a daemon process on one or both systems.

To use rsh (works on Fedora and Slackware, can't vouch for anyone else):
1) enable xinetd (if not enabled) and then enable rsh
2) Create $HOME/.rhosts on all destination systems, adding "+ <username>"
3) chmod 400 $HOME/.rhosts
4) add a line with "rsh" to the end of /etc/securetty

To use a daemon process:
1) Create /etc/rsyncd.conf  -- do an man on rsyncd.conf
Here is mine:

uid=jerry
gid=jerry

[backup]
    path = /usr4
    strict modes = false
    use chroot = no
    max connections = 15
    hosts allow = la-machine,opus,bnt,puma,ra
    read only = false


2) Enable xinetd and rsynchd
3) On server systems, specify target like "valhalla::backup/la-machine"

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:40:44 -0400
>From: discuss-bounces+j.natowitz=rcn.com at blu.org (on behalf of dan moylan <jdm at moylan.us>)
>Subject: [Discuss] hosts.equiv  
>To: "boston linux and unix (blu)" <discuss at blu.org>
>
>
>i have a script to rsync a number of directories between two
>computers on my local net and would like to avoid having to
>enter my password for each one.  i thought i could do this
>using hosts.equiv, but it's not working for me.  i solved
>this once before a number of years ago, but i'm undoubtedly
>forgetting something now.  any help would be appreciated.
>
>tia,
>ole dan
>
>j. daniel moylan
>84 harvard ave
>brookline, ma 02446-6202
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