On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Nick Morrison wrote: > Second: for the times that it's just not possible, it would be *super* > useful to be able to use ssh in the old rsh style of running a command > against a switch without logging into it (eg using a passphrase-less rsa > key) and without having to navigate the prompt.
One option might be flogin from the rancid package, but relies on expect. Another might be Net::Appliance::Session, which I have several times intended to look into producing a Foundry Phrasebook for, or suggest other modifications, but not yet found the time. > What I'd really love to see is a community-oriented site, collating > handy scripts and tips on automating administrative checks and the like. > Is anyone else interested in this kind of venture? Has anyone gone far > down this path without going mad? :-) I'd be very happy to lead or > assist with a project aimed this way, as there is currently not much out > there (in my experience - please correct me if I'm wrong), and with > Brocade's new involvement I think we could get some momentum behind us. > We could even put some collective pressure on Brocade to extend their > ssh implementation to support these features.. I think that would be worthwhile. I dipped into Brocade's support/community stuff a while back but got bored fairly quickly. Jethro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK _______________________________________________ foundry-nsp mailing list [email protected] http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
