This one time, at band camp, Matthew Hannigan wrote: >On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:25:43PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> So for example you could use clusterssh or distributed ssh; dsh or cssh >> packages in Debian, for example, which are quite sweet for doing the same >> interactive thing on a bunch of machines (with the caveat that if your >> machines have varying latencies then you might have to wait a long time >> between commands to get them all in sync). >> >> Alternatively, run passwd on one box and then use perl or sed to replace the >> password hash in place on /etc/shadow like you said ;-) You can probably >> make a one-liner that does this nicely :) > >Coincidentally I came across this yesterday: > > >http://code.google.com/p/exscript/ > > "Exscript is a scripting language for automating network > connections over protocols such as Telnet or SSH. It is > in some ways comparable to Expect, but has some unique > features that make it a lot easier to use and understand > for non-developers."
Wow, that's really awesome! I was thinking about writing a tool like this... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
