Re: Managing Oracle with R-commands vs. SSH
From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:42:00 -0600
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:42:00 -0600
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Ron Reidy <rereidy_at_indra.com> wrote in news:3E7FD9B4.7040709_at_indra.com:
> 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.
FWIW, I've done the same as Ron has to Solaris.
If your DBA's are ... resisting ... you might have them 'ssh' to a 'safe' machine, and from there they can R-command inside the firewall. This way all comm is encrypted by the original 'ssh' command:
ssh rsh
[ local box ] <-- internet --> [ FW ] <-> [ db server ]
-- Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering http://www.hpdbe.comReceived on Tue Mar 25 2003 - 05:42:00 CET