On Nov 17, 2010, at 6:03 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Like many of you, I have custom scripts that use ssh to deploy woa apps. 
> Scripts issue remote commands via ssh and script exec user's id_dsa has 
> corresponding id_dsa.pub in the remote server's auth keys for admin and root. 
> The problem is that root (apparently) is needed to set the chown on the woa 
> bundles to appserver:appserveradm, however I would like to get away from 
> needing root user remote ssh commands for security reasons.
> 
> Assuming you all use chown of appserver:appserveradm and chmod of 550 on your 
> deployed woa bundles (are you?), then the question is with respect to 
> non-interactive, passwordless, secure remote deployment (copy, untar, chown, 
> chmod) of WOAs, what user/ssh setup are you all using besides r...@remote, or 
> is r...@remote the only way?
> 
> Regards, Kieran

You can also create copies of the chown and chmod with the SUID bit set: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid.  So instead of your script doing a chmod, 
you would call (making up a name) chmodappserver.

Chuck


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