How To Install rsh on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsh on CentOS 8.
What is rsh
The rsh package contains a set of programs which allow users to run commands on remote machines, login to other machines and copy files between machines (rsh, rlogin and rcp). All three of these commands use rhosts style authentication. This package contains the clients needed for all of these services. The rsh package should be installed to enable remote access to other machines
We can use yum or dnf to install rsh on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rsh.
Install rsh on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install rsh using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rsh
Install rsh on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install rsh using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rsh
How To Uninstall rsh on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rsh package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rsh
rsh Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/rcp
/usr/bin/rexec
/usr/bin/rlogin
/usr/bin/rsh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/37
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/0e42196a593b541bb9def0b761e9249ef93803
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/cf93505cf1068dd89f519247f8bbd97ddea9e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c/9ee438b10b55db73ed05b2a5521b9be27bd131
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/ed401c657e5e55cfbeba3fe7b5fdd56876b478
/usr/share/doc/rsh
/usr/share/doc/rsh/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/rsh/README
/usr/share/man/man1/rcp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rexec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rlogin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rsh.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsh on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.