That is the solution we've used at work in the past: ssh/scp with passwordless access using public authorized_keys. The part we don't like about this arrangement is, setting up and breaking down the ssh pipes takes a longer than we'd prefer, especially when doing a lot of little operations in succession.

Ideally, we'd like to implement an RPC library which builds (and re-builds if it is broken) an ssh pipe, and then uses it persistently over multiple RPC requests. Of course, most straightforward ways of doing this bypass the security provided by ssh.

We looked into the perl RPC modules available about a year ago or more, and the best we found was a module that used shared secrets instead of public key encryption, which we didn't like (and couldn't get to work). I'd think this was a pretty common problem; I'm surprised someone hasn't already figured out a more clever solution that I can come up with, and put it into a module...

Alan

In reply to RE: Re (tilly) 1: Remote Administration by ferrency
in thread Remote Administration by eclecticIO

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