Re: Managing Oracle with R-commands vs. SSH

[Quoted] I am a DBA/Linux admin at my company and we **do not** use r commands at all as a matter of security. The ssh suite (sftp scp, ssh) are very good replacements and their use is almost seemless from the r commands.

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Ron Reidy
Oracle DBA

Pabster wrote:


> 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 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?

> 

> Thanks!

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