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Re: Kicking off script as another user

SSH isn't that much harder than rsh to configure.

gerry

Steve Emmerson wrote:
Joanna,


Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:28:13 -0700
From: Steve Emmerson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Joanna Green" <Joanna.Green@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Kicking off script as another user


The above message contained the following:


If you set it up, you could use rsh(1) to execute a command as a
cooperating user.


You could also use the far-more-secure ssh(1) utility -- although the
setup for this is, probably, slightly more complex.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>


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