Does anyone have an idea as to how to do the following in a resonably secure automated manner? The problem is that we have a large group of unix machines 100+ (various OS's, Tru64, Solaris, Aix) I would like to grab a bunch of files of each machines for security analysis ie password and shadow files included. To grab these file in an automated fashion you have to be root, we cant use an suid script and we cant log in as root but we do have an audit user. because of the nature of the files they need to be encryped while in transit (not all the machines have ssh/scp) so we would need to use standard cryptographic function like crypt.
Any ideas? Thanks,
