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Date:      Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:19:02 +0000
From:      Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "Cluster" administration software...
Message-ID:  <20011231121902.GA24006@rhadamanth>
In-Reply-To: <22253740289.20011231123504@buz.ch>
References:  <20011230125718.J70028-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> <147191387060.20011230191551@buz.ch> <20011230211722.GA34618@gforce.johnson.home> <22253740289.20011231123504@buz.ch>

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On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 12:35:04PM +0100, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:

> > The clusterit suite can be configured to use ssh over
> > rsh.
> 
> The homepage is promising BUT the tool is a major security threat:
> 
> RCMD_CMD
> Command to use to connect to remote machines. The command chosen must
> be able to connect with no password to the remote host. Defaults to
> rsh
> 
> Now I don't think I'll want to have SSH root logins without
> passwords on webservers.

Did you ever hear of RSA/DSA keys ?
They allow you to authenticate without a password.

Ceri

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