Hi all, I need to install the HP Data Protector Backup client on a few linux servers. The installation should be performed remotly from a HP-UX installation server. Unfortunately, for this installation, Data Protector uses rsh and rexec :-) I'm trying to configure both daemons but the installation still does not work. To make thing simpler (I'm not the administrator of the HP-UX server), I'm trying to use rsh and rexec between two suse servers. What I've done for the time being is: - installing xinetd and the r- servers - abilitate in /etc/xinetd.d/ files rexec, rlogin, and rsh - I added the .rhosts in /root with the ip addresses of the installation server and of my other suse machines from which I'm performing the tests) and the username to be used - seeing that modifying the /etc/securetty file did not solve my problem, I removed the pam_securetty.so line and just kept "required pam_nologin" and "sufficient pam_rhosts_auth.so". I'm able to "rlogin" both as a normal user and as a root from another server, but rsh and rexec work only with a normal user, not with root. I read something about the -h option for rsh/rexec to allow root use but this option does not exist on rsh and for rexec it means "print a usage message". Something is blocking the use of rsh and rexec as root and I really don't understand what. I'm even thinking that the rexec and rsh rpm are made by SuSe especially to block root access (may be a configuration at compile time?) Any help would be greatly appreciated as, unfortunately, it's the only way to perform this remote installations. Regards, Gaël