On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 02:27:03PM +0100, Tim Straub wrote:
> Dear SSH Users,
> 
> I have already installed all of ssh.
> 
> Now I am trying to connect to a remote server (from which I do have the key).
> I get always this error "secure connection to server refused. reverting to
> insecure method.../usr/bin/rsh not found.

Usually this means that there is no SSH server listening on the other end.

> I have had this error before and tried to solve it by using the 
> troubleshooting section of ssh:
> I moved the file /usr/bin/rsh to /usr/old/rsh
> I run the Perl script "perl -pi.orig -e
> 's+/usr/(bin|ucb)/rlogin+/usr/old/rlogin+g ;' /usr/old/rsh
> I make "./configure --with-rsh=/usr/old/rsh"  in the source path of ssh
> I restartet the sshd
> 
> And now I get a new error to the on above: /usr/bin/rsh: no such file or
> directory.

It sounds like you tried to fix the wrong thing. Make sure that you've
got a firewall on the other end that they may be blocking port 22 outbound
and that creates problems on trying to connect.

-Anne
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