Entry 17027 (Berkeley CSUA MOTD)

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1999/12/8-9 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17027 Activity:moderate

12/7    Hi what is the Unix command line utility or is there such an utility
        that can invoke a command process on a remote machine (Lets say a
        NT system)
        \_ you were doing fine until you mentioned NT...
          \_ I know it's almost impossible but it's probable.
                \_ It isn't anything even close to impossible.  It just
                   matters what you're trying to actually do and how important
                   security is and a few other things.  Keep reading.  This is
                   all covered below.  Why reply until you've read what others
                   have to say?
        \_ you can invoke remote processes on other unix machines  with rsh
           or ssh.  If you want to invoke processes on NT with something
           command-line-ish, install a telnet daemon on the NT machine and
           activate the commands through an expect script.  Or see if you can
           find unix-like rsh commands for NT. -ERic
                \_ MKS makes unix tools for NT. http://www.mks.com
        \_ Or you can run perl and have it listen on a socket and then... oh
           it makes me shudder.  I've considered this but never actually done
           due to the annoyance, security issues, etc.
        \_ Exceed comes with a telnet server.  It works on 95, probably for NT,
           also.  It gives you a dos prompt, and will even launch a GUI on
           the remote machine (but you won't be able to interact with the
           GUI, unless there's a trick).
           \_ It's no better than a million other NT telnet servers.  It's
              just telnet, people.  It isn't hard.  It *is* insecure.
           \_ Exceed telnetd is a ridiculously broken hack. For one thing,
              it can't even do terminal control properly, so occasionally
              ends up disallowing more than 25 lines of input in one telnet
              session.   -pissed off
                \_ Slnet from seatle labs is ok but still not perfect.  Much
                   better than the exceed crap.
        \_ BO.

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