It uses regular NT authentication, so it's just as secure as the rest of your Windows network.
If that's not good enough:
-. Replace those hubs with switches - no one will be sniffing and your network will increase performance by 100x.
-. If you do that and are afraid someone is ARP spoofing to sniff on the switch, track them down and have them fired.
-. If that's still not good enough, and you really are worried about people sniffing your connections and seeing the "setup.exe /s" and "dir" commands, look into getting cygwin/sshd installed and running on every machine.
"Security" is of course a good thing, but an ssh-type connection is probably more than is needed for normal "unattended" purposes. What should bother you more is that psexec can be run by any user, and only requires them to have logon rights to the remote machine. A poor NT group/security scheme is a much bigger problem in this case than unencrypted traffic.
lloyd wrote:
Brian Mathis wrote: > You don't need to buy rsh to do this. There is a freeware tool from > sysinternals.com called "psexec" that allows you to remotely run a > command on any machine without first installing a service on it. You > only need rights to log in to that machine. It can be found here: > http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psexec.shtml
Both the rsh and psexec tools worry me a bit since they're not secure.
Anything comparable that uses secure authentication?
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