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RE: No ".netrc"

From: John P Weatherman <asahoshi_at_infionline.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:17:56 -0500
Message-ID: <410-220042325191756381@infionline.net>


I do this with .rhosts, which bypass login security from a specified machine and account to a specified machine and account without needing the password at all. To be more secure, you could set up source and target machines with a restricted shell account that only allows the user to access the particular backup directory and the rcp command.

HtH,

John P Weatherman
Oracle Database Administrator
Advance America

> [Original Message]
> From: <mkline1_at_comcast.net>
> To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> Date: 2/25/2004 2:01:06 PM
> Subject: No ".netrc"
>
> Security is saying they don't like ".netrc" files.
>
> Is there a way to hide passwords and things that make passwords
unavailable and yet allow for some sort of "authorized" file transfers in a Unix/Unix environment?
>
> The current scripts which use the .netrc files take a copy of the exports
from one box that does NOT have a tape drive to another box WITH a tape drive for backup.
>
> Perhaps there is some software product with "agents" that are powered by
a set of rules and you don't have to give it passwords if you do what you are allowed to do. Something where one perhaps could do a "moveit filename remote_host remote_directory" and if the rule says okay, it happens, no password needed.
>
> This is HP-UX if that makes any difference.
>
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