Re: Remote administartion via email
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 13:24 -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
> At 12:54 PM 1/5/2006, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 11:27 -0500, celejar wrote:
> > > I'm looking for an application to do remote administration of my
> > > Debian box via email. The app should read mail (presumably
> > > authenticating via pgp / gpg keys) and execute commands contained
> > > therein. The box connects to the internet intermittently to download
> > > mail, but does not have a persistent connection so I can't use ssh or
> > > webmin. I have googled but not found anything. I suppose it would be
> > > straightforward to do this with Perl or even shell scripting, but I
> > > don't have much experience with either, and as I assume someone has
> > > already done this, why reinvent the wheel? In addition to my
> > > situation, such an application would also be useful for managing a
> > > system from clients such as cell phones or email capable pagers.
> >
> >What is the mail agent on the receiving end? A "client" like
> >Evo or KMail, or a process like fetchmail? Or an MTA that spools
> >email, waiting for the connection?
> >
> >If it's a client, I'd say you're stuck, since only stupid MS
> >products would execute commands in emails.
>
> Couldn't you write something which reads /var/mail/$userid?
That's presuming the mail handler puts mail in the mail spool,
instead of POP (to be picked up by the MUA) or IMAP.
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