[ale] [Kind of OT] Love that SSH PK authentication!

[Chris Fowler]

I wish that there was a way to use that Perl module to do password
authentication.

I'm refering to Net:SSH

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 19:05, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> Sweet!  Just got this to work last week.  Thought it was a nice
> feature.  Just now wrote a script to connect to all of my boxes, have
> each box download and install the latest sendmail from MY workstation,
> and send me the results.  9 machines in the first batch, total time,
> like 3 minutes (max).  Why didn't I think of this earlier?
> 
> I'm thinking about writing a pseudo up2date
> server/package/scriptlet/thingie...
> 
> 1) Download updates to web server from GT RHN mirror (rsync?)
> 2) Have script connect to each workstation and run "rpm -Fvh " on each
> file from the web server (rpm -Fvh
> http://ibb-250.ibb.gatech.edu/updates/rh8.0/sendmailxxx.rpm), using PK
> so I don't have to supply passwords.
> 3) Have script email me log of all machines updated and their update
> response.
> 
> If I get this to work smoothly, would anyone want a copy?
> 
> Hmm...now if I could just figure out how to script driving to the
> office.... :)
> -- 
> Jonathan Glass
> Systems Support Specialist II
> Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
> Georgia Institute of Technology
> 404.385.0127


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