From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jun 8 7:39: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from vtopus.cs.vt.edu (vtopus.cs.vt.edu [128.173.40.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B78037BB22; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 07:38:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhagan@cs.vt.edu) Received: from localhost (dhagan@localhost) by vtopus.cs.vt.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e58Ecoo01870; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 10:38:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 10:38:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Hagan To: "Chutima S." Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to automatic transfer file without security weakness. In-Reply-To: <20000608012122.FWOT23976.mta01@onebox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Chutima S. wrote: > Currently in my all system I used rcp and rsh with cron > to automatatic transfer file. But I think it may be some > weakness of security. Check rdist(1) also. Under FreeBSD you can use -P to specify a rsh replacement (i.e. -P ssh) which would give you the benefits of rdist's semi-smart updates and using ssh for security. Daniel -- Daniel Hagan Computer Science CSE dhagan@cs.vt.edu http://www.cs.vt.edu/~dhagan/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message