From owner-freebsd-net Mon Mar 15 4:34:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9484114F44 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 04:33:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from heinig@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from HDZ-IMA.RWTH-Aachen.de (majestix.hdz-ima.RWTH-Aachen.DE) by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V5.1-12 #30440) with ESMTP id <01J8V07XZ3DC00055S@mail.rwth-aachen.de> for freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:33:38 +0100 Received: from MAJESTIX/MAIL by HDZ-IMA.RWTH-Aachen.de (Mercury 1.20); Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:35:44 +0000 Received: from MAIL by MAJESTIX (Mercury 1.20); Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:35:35 +0000 Received: from hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de by HDZ-IMA.RWTH-Aachen.de (Mercury 1.20) with ESMTP; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:35:29 +0000 Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:34:00 +0100 From: Gerald Heinig Subject: Re: Running superuser scripts remotely To: Graeme Brown Cc: "FreeBSD-Net (FreeBSD.Org) List" Message-id: <36ECFE38.7DF02DFC@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Informatik im Maschinenbau / Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum, RWTH Aachen MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Graeme Brown wrote: > > Hi > > What would folks on this list recommend as a convenient and secure > way to run a script (which needs to run with root level permissions) remotely > on a FreeBSD box controlled from another FreeBSD box without having to go > through a login/password sequence ? > > Should I be looking at ssh and sudo etc form ports collection ? > Graeme, I used rsh with kerberos authentication on my two machines at home, just for fun. The transmissions don't get encrypted, which might not be enough for you, but it would prevent the wrong people doing stuff on your machine remotely. I'm sure ssh has the same and better functionality, though. Gerald -- "Would you like to buy an encyclopaedia to help your child get to college?" "He doesn't need it. He takes the bus!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message