Yesterday, Mark Fearer gleaned this insight:
> Hello, all. I checked the mail archives for 'root access', 'rsh root',
> and 'root login', but failed to find what I was looking for.
> For the purpose of nightly backups, I want to allow a Solaris 2.6 box to
> be able to rsh into a PC that is running Red Hat as root without being
> prompted for a password.
If you're at all security-concious, you do it by downloading OpenSSH and
using ssh instead of rsh. This eliminates the threats caused by having
IP-based security (none) and having all your data traverse the network in
the clear.
Authentication is (or SHOULD be) based on strong public key encryption,
and your data is encrypted via the same. And it has other niceties as
well, like being able to forward an X session over the encrypted tunnel.
It's all around a better solution, and it's even FREE (beer and speech)!
http://www.openssh.com
I'm not just the president of the ssh club for geeks, I'm also a
client... :)
--
You know that everytime I try to go where I really want to be,
It's already where I am, cuz I'm already there...
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