[mdlug] Remote SSH commands

[Aaron Kulkis]

Michael ORourke wrote:
> I think Aaron is drinking the Koolaide again!   ;-)
> 

Ooops, yeah, I type rcp out of habit...



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

true.. but if it's from one computer within a company
to another, just transmitting administrative scripts,
i'm not too worried about a router being a security
risk in the transaction, nor that a windows machine will
have a packet sniffer looking at administrative scripts
that the windows user cannot run.

But in general, I agree with your sentiments viz a viz security.
 
> -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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