How To Install rsh on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsh on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rsh.
Install rsh on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install rsh using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rsh
Install rsh on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the rsh package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rsh
rsh Package Contents on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.