RE: No ".netrc"

SSH is included in HP/UX, at least in the 11i install that HP's doing right
now down the hall from me...

Rich

Rich Jesse                        System/Database Administrator
rich.jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx      QuadTech, Sussex, WI USA


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bobak, Mark [mailto:Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 1:05 PM
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: No ".netrc"
> 
> 
> I'd look at the ssh family of utilities.
> 
> See http://www.openssh.org
> 
> Mark J. Bobak
> Oracle DBA
> ProQuest Company
> Ann Arbor, MI
> "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he 
> is not, and
> a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." 
>  --Horace
> Walpole
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mkline1@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mkline1@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 2:01 PM
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: No ".netrc"
> 
> 
> Security is saying they don't like ".netrc" files.
> 
> Is there a way to hide passwords and things that make passwords
> unavailable and yet allow for some sort of "authorized" file transfers
> in a Unix/Unix environment?
> 
> The current scripts which use the .netrc files take a copy of the
> exports from one box that does NOT have a tape drive to 
> another box WITH
> a tape drive for backup.
> 
> Perhaps there is some software product with "agents" that are 
> powered by
> a set of rules and you don't have to give it passwords if you do what
> you are allowed to do. Something where one perhaps could do a "moveit
> filename remote_host remote_directory" and if the rule says okay, it
> happens, no password needed.
> 
> This is HP-UX if that makes any difference.
> 
> --
> Michael Kline, Principle Consultant
> Business To Business Solutions
> 13308 Thornridge Ct
> Midlothian, VA  23112
> 804-744-1545
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