Re: Getting remote_exec working via telnet or rsh

[dank]

Rob Savoye wrote:
> >   http://www.kegel.com/xgcc3/dejagnu.html
> 
>   I'm not so sure about the fragile part, but when it comes to cross testing,
> everything is confusing. It's a complex problem. The doc sucks, cause 
> obviously
> I'm not a writer, and nobody else (excluding the tutorial) has ever really
> added anything to it,

Well, it looks like a couple of us are finally stepping
up to the plate, at least for doc on remote testing.

> > Alternately, anyone know how to set up an rsh server on Red Hat Linux
> > in a way that it actually accepts remote commands from unprivileged
> > remote users?  I'm not sure it's possible with their stock rsh server.
> 
>   You have to add the users to the .rhosts on the target side, but as I see
> from other messages, ssh is prefered.

I 'fixed' it by installing an insecure rshd :-)

> One silly question, if you are running
> Linux on the target, why not just run the testcases natively ?

The target is an embedded system, and does not have a compiler.
- Dan