Application Deployment- Remote installation

[Leonard Isham]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:02:32 +0800, Ow Mun Heng <ow.mun.heng at wdc.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 23:58, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am Do, den 21.10.2004 schrieb Rajiv um 10:45:
> >
> > >     Is there any software available for application deployment. I would like to install packages from one
> > > machine to all machines. I would like to do remote installation without being asked for password of the
> 
> >
> > Not that hard to do this yourself with 30 minutes scripting. Have the
> > SSH daemon running on each client machine and setup SSH login using keys
> > (the passphrase issue can easily be handled by using the keychain tool).
> > Then from central deployment host login remote as root using SSH (all
> 
> Note that you're permitting Login as root. On FC, Sshd is configured to
> permit root logins. I usually just disable it as a precaution.
> 
> my 2 cents

You should also limit who can ssh in and use certificates.

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Leonard Isham, CISSP 
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