To the group.
Thanks to all 3 dozen people who took the time to respond!!!!
99.9% responded with using ssh(secure shell) which comes in two flavors:
shareware - or - a commercial product by Data Fellows.
There is a secure cp option under the ssh which will allow me to securely copy
over files.
Other suggestions were rdisd(remote distrubution) which depends on r-commands
that I could not use. Also, interactive ftp which I needed to stay away from
also.
I guess my only concern with ssh is (and if anyone wants to reply off line, I
won't send another summary unless there is a need to)what happens regarding
Sun's maintenance aggrement when I shutdown their inetd process and bring up a
third party inetd. Will Sun still support this? My guess is no, and that would
be my concern.
Thanks to everyone for their help.
Mark Conroy
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Subject: transfering filesd between machines
Author: <mark_conroy@em.fcnbd.com> at INTERNET
Date: 11/17/1998 10:47 AM
Question for the group,
I checked the faq, and found some similar questions to this, but I need a
different mechanism for transferring files then with r-commands.
I have an u450e running solaris 2.6 at one location, and another u450e running
solaris 2.6 at another location. The second machine is a disaster recovery
server for the first machine.
I need to keep the following files the same on both machine:
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/printer.conf
/etc/system
Does anyone have a good, secure method for doing this. We don't allow r-
commands to be used due to weak authentication. We don't use nfs as that does
not appear to be very secure.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. I just need these files copied once a day.
I was going to use interactive ftp, but then i need to put the userid and
password in clear text form on the machine, and don't like that approach. Also,
no freeware is allowed(I guess I am sort of handcuffed by all the precautions -
but they are necessary).
Thanks in advance, and I will summarize.
Mark Conroy
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