> Well, if you have a little knowledge about iptables, you could trigger some > action when someone tries to connect to some port. > So by telnet to for example port 48113, and have iptables trigger this and > start a script that reads from a predefined cms-filename, you have the trigger > functionality there. > > Maybee this is some overkill... :)
Big problem here: no authentication of originator (telnet doesn't do that), no way to set the effective uid of the executor (do you want all your users executing things as root?) and there's no way to return values to the originator. Rsh (for all its warts) at least does these 3 things right. I've offered IBM a chance to discuss including our SSH/SFTP/SCP client into the base VM product. If you think that would be a good idea, contact your IBM rep (don't post it here -- we all know it would be a good idea and the PHBs need to hear it through the official channels). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
