From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 22 16:56:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20620 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:56:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20615 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:56:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA12772; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:55:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:55:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Steven Yang cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: question about rsh and rcp In-Reply-To: <839A86AB6CE4D111A52200104B938D4303D24D@MOE> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Steven Yang wrote: > I am using ssh. I want to run scripts that update multiple servers at > the same time as root, and I figured it would be neat if rcp or rsh > worked as root. So I guess to rephrase my question, how do I update > multiple servers as root? It was a serious suggestion. ssh is much more secure (entire session is encrypted) and easier to set up than rsh. At that point it works in the same way. There is a 'scp' application taht works like rcp but securely. > > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Steven Yang wrote: > > > > > Hi, is it possible to use rsh and rcp as root? > > > If so, how? > > > > Use ssh instead? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message