remote deletion of user account

[Scott E Smith]

Hello all, I need to be able to remotely execute the userdel command from another HP-UX host (host a logs into host be and runs userdel -r XXX). What would be the most secure way to do this. I have been looking at rexec but is is not very secure. What would you suggest? Thanks.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

You need to download and install ssh if you want the secured way of remote execution.

Check the site

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/Admin/openssh-2.5.1p1/

for SSH. You need to do some reading before you can have it up and running.

-Sri

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Scott,

I guess "remsh" would be the choice. Your hosts and username should be defined in the /.rhosts file on the remote server.

Thanks

[Jeffrey S. Sims]

Scott,

Openssh is probably the best option as far as security goes. You can download it from the link Sridhar gave you or you can get the latest version at http://www.openssh.com/portable.html

OpenSSH requires OpenSSL ( http://www.openssl.org/ ) and Zlib ( http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ ) to operate. There are installation instructions that give you this info at ftp://ftp.ca.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/INSTALL

Hope this gets you rollin.