In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, valpa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm a net admin for about 20 unix servers, and I need to frequently >telnet on to them and configure them. >It is a tiring job to open a xterm and telnet, username, password to >each server.
Don't use telnet. it's clumsy and has security issues. Use ssh with RSA or DSA keys. Then you simply do: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] in an xterm and you are loggedis as user username on server machinename. It's vastly more secure and more reliable. If you're talking about initial setup of a machine (OS installation or whatever), our solution was to have a post-install CD or floppy which fetched standard server configuration data. This included an ssh public key for our ssh-key distribution, so after running the post-install disc, we could push out staff ssh-keys and logins were available. -- Jim Segrave ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
