R-Services

footprinting

R-Services or R-Commands are a suite of networking tools to execute commands on remote systems. As they use cleartext and unsecure access controls, they were replaced by more secure protocols. πŸ”’

  • rlogin: remote login
  • rsh: remote shell
  • rcp: remote copy
  • rexec: remote command execution
  • rwho: information about logged users
  • ruptime: uptime of a remote host
  • rusers: list of logged users
  • rwall: sends a message to all logged users

🐊️ Ports: 512, 513, and 514.

Random Commands

$ rlogin IP -l username
$ rusers -al IP

πŸ‘» To-do πŸ‘»

Stuff that I found, but never read/used yet.

  • /etc/hosts.equiv
  • .rhosts (username IP\n+ IP, +==anyone)