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[kline@xxxxxxxxxxx (Gary Kline)]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:29:57AM +0100, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> > I admit ignorance when it comes to security issues of things-network.
> > That up-front.  Can anyone tell me how to get a cron job (run as root)
> > here on tao to rsh to my kline account on suzah, my SuSE platform?
> > 
> > Every night, I tar up some files and rcp them over to suzah's hard drive,
> > in /tmp.  As root I invariably get a permission denied; when I exec the
> > script as kline here or type the command as kline here, say,
> > 
> >    % rsh -l kline suzah ls -l /tmp
> > 
> > it works.
> > 
> > I do understand the need for security... but I'd sure like to understand
> > this better.
> 
> By default, remote root logins are disabled for security reasons. The hurdle
> to take is a bit higher, if you first have to get access to a regular user
> account and still have to find out how to become the root user. If you trust
> your network environment, you can simply enable remote root logins by
> setting ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE to "yes" in /etc/rc.config. If you do not trust
> your network, consider SSH as an alternative.
> 

        Since I am both superuser and user on  both tao and suzah, a
        cron'd command by root would be safe.  SuSE is more security-
        aware that I had though; good to know.

        thanks for your help,

        gary

> 


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   Gary D. Kline         kline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx          Public service Unix

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