Do you have SUDO available on the linux box? If so then you could setup your rexec userid with a NOPASSWD sudo entry :
Cmnd_Alias MYCOMMAND = /path/to/what/you/want/to/do rexecusrid ALL=NOPASSWD:MYCOMMAND Then in your rexec use: rexec linuxbox 'sudo /path/to/what/you/want/to/do' I've never played with the sudo host_alias stuff but that might help make it a bit more secure.. but you already know that it's not.. But at least with this solution your not sending the root password over the wire in clear text anywhere. My $.02. jrw Jim Chappell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 03/13/2007 02:42 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject [LINUX-390] REXEC - ROOT HOW-TO I need to run an REXEC from a z/OS platform to a zLinux SLES 9 SP3 environment and I NEED for the REXEC to have ROOT authority. Yes I know all about the security problems that this entails but at this point I do not have much choose. My attempts all fail: EZA4801I MVS TCP/IP REXEC CS V1R6 EZA4810E The call to rexec_af() function failed: EZA4744I Foreign host aborted the connection. I can do some of my process if I use a userid other than ROOT so the network environment is OK (I think anyway) a) Can I use ROOT (I know that I shouldn't but I have a need for speed) b) If so where is the control being implemented? Jim Chappell 503 745-7841 503 349-5603(Cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein "If your don't change your direction, you'll end up where you're going" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
