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.

This has nothing to do with oracle. Why don't you just create aliases for the r-commands to use ssh ? I used this with ssh2 and it worked perfectly well. I did not have to adjust a single script for this.

Ronald.