You didn't confuse me, but I don't see the point of the restrictions. accountA cannot run rsh?
Put your rsh command into a shell script.
Then in your JSP or servlet or whatever, call "su - accountB -c rsh_script.sh"
sudo would probably be better, you will have to give accountA the right to be accountB without having to enter a password.
There are other ways to do this, in my mind they are better. For things like this I just use xinetd and setup a service that runs whatever command I want and sends the results back.
John
Astrid Wagner wrote:
John Turner wrote:
You're right, file ownership has nothing to do with run privileges.
Can you clarify what you need?
Is accountB the only account allowed to use rsh? Or are you saying that you want to use rsh to login into a remote host as accountB, but accountA will launch rsh?
OK. We allow a certain account "accountB" to be able to rsh on users machine with the user's account so
for example we can check their proper installation etc.
Therefore what I want to do is for example have accountB run "rsh -l userA userAmachine 'ls /home/userA/someDir'"
The .rhosts file of the users allow that access.
But tomcat as well as all DB related things run as a different account "accountA".
So how can I get accountB to run the rsh command?
I hope I did not confuse you too much ?!
Astrid
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