On Wednesday 08 February 2006 01:24, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote: > John Summerfied <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 8-FEB-2006 > 00:08:28.47 > > >Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I try to get the rsh command working to a FC4 system > > > >The mandatory question, "Why?" > > > >rsh is inherently insecure. For most purposes ssh is supperior (and not > >just for security), so why use rsh? > > I know, but... > I want to setup an automated procedure on my openVMS machine to perform > tasks on the FC4 machine. rsh on VMS allows me to give username/password on > the command line. ssh does not allow me to do that and when I try to read > the password from anythink else than the keyboard it crashes. (I do not > like to sit 24 hours a day at my computer). > I will try to do this only for machines on the the same local network > (actually on the same switch panel) so that the big advantage off the > encryption of ssh versus rsh is not a big issue. > > Jouk > Look up hostbased auth for SSH. That will get the job done, complete with encryption and no password requirement, and it is easy to set up. -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64@xxxxxxxxx http://www.n-man.com/ -- Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! http://rate.affero.net/nman64/
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