ssh question

["G. Kapetanios" <gk205@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

Hi all, 


After some security incident on my network I decided to set up ssh.
I think I have figured most things of interest to me out. However, 
before I had rsh in ascript to start my mail program which is another host
through FvwmButtons. Now that I disabled rsh I tried to figure a way to do
the same with slogin. I figured the way but it involves setting 
authorisation keys without passphrases. How bad is this ? Am I loosing all
security ? Am I better off with rsh in this case ? And another related
wuestion: When I disabled rsh I simply chmoded the programs 700.
Now I can't use rsh as a simple user (although I can as root) even if I
set the permissions as they used to be. I get a message saying 
rcmd: socket: Permission denied
Obviously the programs to set sssh involve some secure sockets. Is there a
workaround or not for this  ??

                            Thanks for any comment 
                            George   



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George Kapetanios
Churchill College
Cambridge, CB3 0DS    E-Mail: GK205@cus.cam.ac.uk
U.K.                  WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html
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