Enabling rsh for AIX

To enable rsh, create a /.rhosts file on each target system, add a line to the file specifying the full domain name of the source system. Make sure .rhosts file has 600 permission.

                                                        

root@lpar1(/)#cat .rhosts

lpar2       root

root@lpar8(/)#

root@lpar2(/)#cat .rhosts

lpar1       root

root@lpar8(/)#

Make sure /etc/hosts file have entries for both servers. Also shell is uncommented under /etc/inetd.conf file. If not do the following

# chsubserver -a -v shell -p tcp6 -r inetd

# refresh –s inetd

Test and you should be good.

root@lpar1(/)#rsh lpar2 date