Re: rdist as root?

[Dirk Luetjens <dirk@plus.lfm.rwth-aachen.de>]

Larry Daffner writes:
 > 
 > Dirk Luetjens writes:
 > -> 
 > -> How can I invoke a rdist command as root to distribute the /usr/local/
 > -> tree to the other computers in the network?
 > 
 > First, make a file "distfile", which will look something like:
 > 
 > =====
 > MACHINES = ( machine-a machine-b machine-c )
 > FILES    = ( /usr/local )
 > 
 > ${FILES} -> ${MACHINES};
 > 	 install ;
 > ======
 > 
 > Save it as, say, /etc/distfile, and then just rdist -f /etc/distfile
 > 
I forgot to say that the problem is when rdist trys to login into a
remote machine using rsh. This is denied for root. The solution was to
have a .rhosts file in the root's homedirectory.

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