Yeah, that I know. Once you have access to the machine and you have
super-user rights you can log on as root then shut down the machine.
But I was talking about how SSH allows you to log on, run the command
and then leave. So you can perform tasks like:
ssh -l root <hostmachine> shutdown -r now
After you give your passwd, it will execute that command and then log
you off. I don't *think* you can do that with telnet. First of all you
can't telnet -l root <hostname>. The server won't allow you to log on
as the super-user since telnet sends clear text passwd. But I don't
think you could do a:
telnet -l <userID> <hostname> uptime
Then it logs on and issues that command to then log out. As I look at
the telnet man pages, and attempt the above command, telnet thinks that
anything following the hostname is a port. And there's no uptime port
on a machine that I know of! lol
[tdh@krypton ~]$telnet -l timh 152.160.8.96 uptime
uptime: bad port number
But there's nothing in there about being able to just log on, run a
command and then leave. You have to log on, accept your envirnment, run
your command, and then manually log off. As I mentioned with SSH you
can run a command like I did above:
[timh@r2d2 timh]$ ssh -l timh yoda uptime
timh@yoda's password:
8:36am up 55 days, 8:41, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
As you can see the machine's been up for 55 days, I didn't want to
reboot it! So that's what I was referring to. But you are correct. If
you log onto the machine, then su to root, you can then issue the
shutdown command.
But as always, I give way too much information! :0)
tdh
T. Holmes
Unixtechs.org
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"Real Men use Vi."
* Nadin Merali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010409 21:29]:
| you can shutdown with telnet
|
| log in as a user, su to root and then
| shutdown -r now
