Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:47:08 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> Cc: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: SSH and remote execution of tasks Message-ID: <XFMail.010316074708.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <20010315145408.A24595@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
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On 15-Mar-01 Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hi, > I am sorry if this has been discussed before. I just have to ask because I > did not find the answer in the man page. > We've disabled telnetd in a couple servers that we have so we have > resorted to SSH. I have seen discussions on the list regarding the > running of a task on a remote machine without the option of login to a > shell. > > Now my Q is, where do I get all these details? I have a case where I have > to run a script to update user accounts and since a few people use the > same script we decided to give little executionary privilege via sudo. > So I am in my shell on hostA and all I want to do is run scriptX on hostB > via ssh. I always have to verify my passwd when running scriptX from a > shell isn hostB. How do I do that via SSH? > The user you are impersonating on HostB must have your public key from HostA in his /~/.ssh/authorized_keys. The host-keys (in /etc/ssh/...) public parts also have to be exchanged and implanted into each others /etc/ssh/authorized_keys It took me a bit of testing to get to this - specially since there are both RSA and DSA keys to manipulate if fallback to ssh1 is used. > > -Wash > > -- > Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., > wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza > Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., > Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. > > It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard > at one time. ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-BETA ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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