On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:01:31 EDT, "Gene Grimm" writes:
>As I am a relative novice system administrator, perhaps someone more
>experienced can guide me to the proper way of securely invoking a script on
>a remote server. We have two facilities presently, with most of our
>equipment in our main office. I am attempting to automate account
>maintenance and would like to find information on the proper way to have one
>Perl script begin remote execution of scripts on another Linux server.
I´d go for something like
system("ssh someotherhost command");
You can easily limit the commands the user under which your script on
the first host runs with prepending the command in the
authorizid_keys-file on the remote host. See the recent
debian-user - archives for the exact syntax.
cheers,
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