From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2008-04-22T13:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby script to run command as root on remote linux system

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:03:42 +0100, Vladimir Konrad wrote:

>> So I am just wonder if anybody has found ANY possible way to run remote
>> commands with root privileges on the remote computer.
> 
> If you have control over remote computer (and can live with security
> implications), you could allow direct root log-in over ssh using ssh
> keys...
> 
> Vlad

SSH also allows you to create single-purpose keys.
See http://pkeck.myweb.uga.edu/ssh/

--Ken

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Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/