How To Install rsh on CentOS 8

rsh is Clients for remote access commands (rsh, rlogin, rcp)

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.