[mdlug] Remote SSH commands

[Michael ORourke]

I think Aaron is drinking the Koolaide again!   ;-)

I don't think ftp/rcp is a good choice, especially when there are more 
secure utilities available.

-Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Pritts" <danno at umich.edu>
To: "MDLUG's Main discussion list" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Remote SSH commands


> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 01:20:56AM -0500, Mark Montague wrote:
>> rcp is horribly insecure [*] (rsh - and its siblings rlogin and rcp -- 
>> are much worse than ftp, which isn't really good to use either).  Since
>> you have ssh on the system, and have already set up a public/private
>> keypair for ${USER}, use scp to distribute the files instead:
>>
>>      scp /location/of/script ${USER}@${CLIENT}:${SCRIPT}
>>
>> [*] See http://www.google.com/search?q=rsh+security+issues
>
> Oh, I'm sorry sir.  I didn't realize you were root.
>
> danno
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