Hello, If you create a private-public pair with ssh-keygen you can access to the other machine without a password. Then your script would call ssh and probably "sudo /sbin/poweroff" as a parameter to halt the remote machine.
On 11/25/05, Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I would like to write a script to log in to a network machine and run > halt (for the missus, who doesn't really like logging in via ssh just to > turn of the internet connection...), and saw that autoexpect looks like > it would fit the bill. It doesn't seem to be in portage and it seems a > lot more difficult with expect... > Any ideas? > Cheers > Antoine > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Andres Becerra Sandoval -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
