Telnet root login

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Thu Mar 26 18:34:09 PDT 2009


Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
>>> Then use ssh and set "PermitRootLogin yes" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
>>
>> this doesn't work if you are usinf a set of machines run from a 
>> central machine using nc (netcat) to do scripted i/o through a telnet 
>> session on the other machines (for example).
>>
>> The advantage of telnet is you can pipe nc straight into it.
> 
> Dude, ssh with password-less master key on client and correct 
> certificate on server in ~/authorized_keys2 is your friend. You can pipe 
> right to ssh in scripts just fine and it's all nice and secure. You can 
> also do other interesting things with port forwarding over ssl link.

I expressed myself poorly

I want to pipe straight tcp into sessions for remote control
I often use the method you describe above,
but sometimes it's just too cumbersom.




> 
> -Maxim



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