Error – RSH Permission Denied in Sun Solaris

When you run a command remotely from one Solaris Server (say SERVERA) to a remote server (say SERVERB) you might encounter the error

RSH: Permission denied

This could happen even though you have the host entry in the .rhosts file of the user.

This could still be a problem with the .rhosts entry.

To resolve this problem. Try to do a RSH / Telnet / SSH onto the other server entering a username and password.

Once logged in, run the command

#who am i

This will show the machines actual name/ip that the remote machine sees. Enter this name in the .rhosts file and that should fix the problem.

Shashi Ranjan
December 16, 2010 at 5:58 am

Thanks a lot for to the point answer. It helped me. It’s working fine now.
cosme pontes
February 23, 2011 at 1:19 pm

I have a printer with Xerox X700 SunSolaris system, today made the following error:

Can you help me? I have to reinstall the entire system?

thanks
cosme pontes
February 23, 2011 at 1:20 pm

started[7]: failed to abandon contract 39: permission denied
James
July 20, 2011 at 7:39 am

I recieved a similar error this morning. I booted into failsafemode and updated the archive (yes to both prompts when it asks). I then rebooted the system and went into default mode and all was happy again.
poganka
February 12, 2012 at 4:36 am

Thanks a lot, dear friend. It was simple, helpful and most important exactly at the right time 😉
Gen
July 9, 2012 at 8:53 pm

Thanks! This was very helpful.