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Re: Mass Machine Login


From: Adam Kane <kane () linkitsoftware com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:08:45 -0800

 Ryan Cummings wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Cummings [mailto:ryan.r.cummings () gmail com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:06 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Mass Machine Login

I've been beating my brains out trying to find a solution for this but
can't.  Has anyone seen software or a script that will allow you to send a
login to multiple machines at one time?  Say for an entire room, for sake of
an example, has 75 computers all on the same vlan and we would like to login
to all the computers without touching each one of them individually with a
specified username.

Ryan
  
I feel having the same login/password on all 75 computers is a bad
security practice.

Are you talking about logging into all the computers via SSH or FTP or
something like that or are you talking about having the computers
automatically log in when booted?

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