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20030725: remote LDM 6 installation and tuneup by the UPC

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  • Subject: 20030725: remote LDM 6 installation and tuneup by the UPC
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:16:31 -0600
Frank,

>Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:47:37 -0400
>From: "Frank Colby" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UMass Lowell
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: remote LDM 6 installation and tuneup by the UPC

The above message contained the following:

> Steve,
> 
> I have looked as carefully as I can at our ldm machine, which is
> actually running SunOS5.6, not 5.4, and cannot find an ssh utility.
> I looked in the /etc/services file, and there isn't even a port
> assignment for it.

The ssh package is available at <http://www.openssh.com/>.

> Is this something that is simple to install?

I don't know how easy ssh(1) is to install because I've never done it.
Sorry.  It's installed on all our systems, however.

> Up to now, I have just used telnet for remote access, and su to get superuser
> privileges when needed (rarely).

ssh is good because it encrypts everything (including the password).
It's your machine, however, so you can decide not to install ssh and
I'll just use telnet.

From the perspectives of security and systems administration, however,
you should install it.

Let me know what you want to do.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson