Connecting to machines

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Re: Connecting to machines by perrin (Chancellor) on Oct 17, 2002 at 21:29 UTC
Net::SSH	[reply]
Re: Connecting to machines by joe++ (Friar) on Oct 17, 2002 at 21:42 UTC
Please see my answer to your duplicated question, regarding using host keys instead of storing passwords in cleartext. That's not using Perl, but more of a security/sysadmin approach... -- Cheers, Joe	[reply]
Re: Re: Connecting to machines by joe++ (Friar) on Oct 18, 2002 at 08:30 UTC
Yet another note on connecting between unix/linux boxen using ssh. Again, not Perl related. Although there are a few Perl wrappers available (search CPAN for Net::SSH) the real challenge is to connect securely. Storing passwords in files, especially cleartext Perl files, is not regarded secure in any way! The alternative is to setup (Open-)SSH for using host keys, better yet, using the ssh-agent utility. IBM DeveloperWorks has some excellent articles on this matter. I don't want to repeat these here, so just links: Devworks: Open SSH Key Management - introduction ssh keys Devworks: Open SSH 'ssh-agent' and 'keychain' - advanced and really secure options Devworks: Open SSH Agent forwarding - more features and improvements For Windows you can use Putty which provides many of the SSH features through commandline utilities. -- Cheers, Joe Update: corrected link 2 and added link 3	[reply]