On Thursday 16 May 2002 11:41 am, Eoin D. Fleming wrote:
> 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,
just install ssh on all of them =P
