aargh! automated Rlogin

[Igaduma]

Hi all,

Is it possible to write a script that does an automated rlogin to a remote host and executes a few commands ?
The reason:
We need to run a command every minute on a remote solaris machine but the admin of that remote machine has disabled all cron activity.
I thought it would be cunning to run the crontab on our machine, let it do a rlogin to the remote machine and come back.
But, with ftp you can specify the login/password but I've got no idea how to do this in a script with rlogin.
Can you pass the password on ?

Thanks for any help,
Iga

 

[julianbarnett]

Try rsh if it is enabled - put your local hostname in the .rhosts file in your users home directory on the remote machine. Then in your cron call..

rsh [ -l remote_user ] remote_host command

To pre-empt the security buffs replies, yes this is an insecure way of doing it. You are better off installing OpenSSH or nsh which allow this sort of thing over secure encrypted data paths.