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. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany Your code is theoretically beautiful, but it won't work. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq