Re: Mass Machine Login

[Bradley <bradley () rucus net>]

Hi there.

I once looked after a lab of UNIX machines. To update them I wrote some
scripts that would ssh into each one and perform some pre-defined
commands. I used a public/private key to do this which is a little more
secure than assigning the same password to each machine, provided you
keep your private key safe. If this matches your scenario shout and I
can send you my scripts.

Bradley



Adam Kane wrote:

> 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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