rsh: UID does not match user

[Corinna Vinschen]

Pdomings@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Is it normal behavior for the UID in the remote shell to be set to 500
> regardless of the user?   When I issue the command:
>     rsh pdomings id

A non interactive rsh isn't able to change the user context. You
get the id of the user running inetd.

Use sshd with password authentication or a sshd running under your
account to get the intended behaviour.

Corinna

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