On Sun, 10 May 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote:
> > Hi all, > > > After some security incident on my network I decided to set up ssh. > I think I have figured most things of interest to me out. However, > before I had rsh in ascript to start my mail program which is another host > through FvwmButtons. Now that I disabled rsh I tried to figure a way to do > the same with slogin. I figured the way but it involves setting > authorisation keys without passphrases. How bad is this ? Am I loosing all > security ? Am I better off with rsh in this case ? And another related > wuestion: When I disabled rsh I simply chmoded the programs 700. > Now I can't use rsh as a simple user (although I can as root) even if I > set the permissions as they used to be. I get a message saying > rcmd: socket: Permission denied > Obviously the programs to set sssh involve some secure sockets. Is there a > workaround or not for this ?? > > Thanks for any comment > George > ssh CAN replace both rsh and rlogin, To do things as you would with rsh, you use 'ssh <command>'. The trick is that you must first put the public keys for each system into either /etc/ssh or your .ssh directory (in the files ssh_known_keys or known_keys respectively). The easiest way to do this is to slogin from one machine to the other, and then do the same from the other machine back again - manually approving authentication each time (by the way - slogin is just an alias for ssh). Hope that helps, chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]