Re: Kicking off script as another user

• To: Steve Emmerson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Kicking off script as another user
• From: Gerry Creager <gerry.creager@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:36:17 -0600

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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