Re: headless control?

From: Muncher (root_at_polaris.com)
Date: 10/04/03 

Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 09:56:19 -0500

> You shouldn't use telnet or use your newsreader as root.

For a minute I couldn't figure out what you were talking about here. I am
fairly newbie, but not so newbie that I would surf and read as root.
The 'root' section of my address is phony - for that matter, so is the rest
of it. But, thanks for the tip, anyway.

>Setup ssh for
> key-authentication, setup 'sudo' on all systems to allow executing
> 'shutdown' with the NOPASSWD tag for your user/admin group. Create a
> file "System.lst" listing all Systems, one per line: hostname1
> hostname2
> hostname3

I don't understand most of the above, but that is fixable easily enough.

I knew from reading that telnet is not secure and that something called
SSH was the way to go, but heck, you can only learn so much at a time.

Anyway, I will open the books and see if I can get up to speed with SSH.

Thanks for the reply.

Muncher

  

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