[Eug-lug] Sun RPC vs Debian

[Allen Brown]

The problem is not a missing daemon at my end.  The problem
is that I don't have the binaries to reach their daemons.
AFAIK there is no apt-get package that supports these protocols.
Is that true?  Or am I just asking for the wrong name?
--
Allen Brown
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Steve wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 17:00 -0800, Allen Brown wrote:
> > I need to be able to use the commands that I think are called
> > Sun RPC.  I am referring to the commands rlogin, rcp, etc.
> > 
> > I know these commands are insecure.  I am inside a corporate
> > firewall trying to talk with computers that are running HPUX.
> > And the admins of those systems are sometimes reluctant to
> > install ssh.  But I need to be able to rsync to these
> > computers via a cron job.
> > 
> > RedHat installed these commands.  They worked just fine.
> > 
> > Debian does not install them.  Instead it installs ssh
> > right over those program names.  And ssh wants to use
> > port 22.  Wrong port for this protocol.
> > 
> > I did a apt-cache search for rpc and rcp.  If the rpc
> > commands are there, I sure don't recognize them.  What
> > should I find?  How can I solve this problem?
> 
> These services, rlogin, rsh and the likes, are maintained in inetd (or
> xinetd depending on distribution). You can look for them
> in /etc/inetd.conf or in /etc/xinetd.d/*. If I remember right, and
> that's not likely - I've slept since I last used Debian, Woody ships
> inetd. You might need to start the inetd server after you comment out
> what you don't need from the inetd.conf file. inetd is commonly shut off
> since there are a lot of services that it serves up that are insecure.
> 
> Sun RPC on the other hand is a service that exposes the RPC protocol.
> It's probably already running, look at netstat -nl for any portmapper
> listener (port 111), since services like NFS require RPC to function.
> 
> -- 
> Steve <euglinux at nwtechops.com>
> 
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