Re: Managing Oracle with R-commands vs. SSH

"Pabster" <is2003_at_adelphia.net> wrote in message news:<ZfPfa.8907$TW2.1720323_at_news1.news.adelphia.net>...
> Upon speaking with some Oracle administrators in my office, they are
> insisting that they need to use R-commands (rlogin, rsh etc) to manage
> Oracle and for use in applications that use Oracle (we have 8i and 9i). We
> would like to turn off the R-commands on all systems due to security issues
> but these Oracle admins are resisting. Though I have read many articles on
> this and all say that SSH is a complete replacement for the R-commands and
> can be used instead. I even spoke to one Oracle admin from another company
> who said he uses SSH in his Oracle environment and would never use
> R-commands.
>
> Since I am not Oracle-savvy, I wanted to get opinions out there....why would
> this Oracle admin state that he HAS to use R-commands instead of SSH? Lack
> of knowledge on his part or possibly better reasoning that I'm not aware of?
>

Have you asked if they have to do any work like re-writing ten thousand scripts that are expecting to r? Are there any firewall issues they've done bizarre things to get around?

Aside from that, what everyone else said. And explain "root kit" to them.

> Thanks!

jg

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