NT Telnet Frustration

2000-05-19 Thread Andy Brown
I have to use the NT Telnet client fairly often to administer my Linux boxes, and most command prompt compromises are easy enough to work around, but I'm at my wit's end trying to use VI. Does anyone have the optimal bash settings (key mappings, etc.) to make the session a little more friendly?

RE: RSH Timeouts

1999-12-04 Thread Andy Brown
egards Greg W IT Consultant Sydney Australia *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 4/12/99 at 22:33 Andy Brown wrote: >I need to use RSH sessions in rapid succession (if not in parallel) from >a script. My problem is that the first RSH session works perfectly, but >rapid subsequent sess

RSH Timeouts

1999-12-04 Thread Andy Brown
I need to use RSH sessions in rapid succession (if not in parallel) from a script. My problem is that the first RSH session works perfectly, but rapid subsequent sessions are timing out. I considered it might be a reverse DNS lag, and disabled the -a flag on the rshd line of inetd.conf (but left

ipchains? x2

1999-11-09 Thread Andy Brown
1. Assuming a basic deny policy, what basic ipchains commands are necessary to allow ftp transactions from the external network. Obviously allowing the daemon port 21, but how do you handle the session ports? 2. Along the same lines, what commands (if this is possible) are required to allow exter

sudo

1999-11-08 Thread Andy Brown
I'm still working on altering/adding user accounts from scripts initiated via rsh/ssh. For those of you who have offered some assistance, thanks. I'm experimenting with every possible solution. However, I have found a 'SUDO' command under BSD which seems to offer exactly the functionality I nee

bash-passwd-PAM scripting

1999-11-03 Thread Andy Brown
I've been working on some Linux/Sendmail scripts to manipulate accounts from a Windows NT RSH session, and have a few questions for anyone willing to help. 1. We're shadowing passwords (of course), which forces us to go through the passwd utility to setup and/or change the password on an account.