Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Question about "rexec" Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 14:02:13 -0700 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030515 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Wed, 21 May 2003, David HALE wrote: > > > >>Hi, >> >>I am writing a shell script that needs to execute commands on a remote >>system using "rexec". I want to do this without typing in a password every >>time the "rexec" command executes. The way I see it the "rexec" command in >>CYGWIN does not allow a password to be passed. I have tried to use a >>".netrc" file (to supply the password) with the format: >> machine remote_machine_name login remote_username password string >>I have not been able to get this to work. I cannot find a man page or other >>CYGWIN documentation for "rexec" or ".netrc". >> >>Is it possible to do this with CYGWIN? >> >>David Hale >> >> > >Umm, why not use "ssh"? > Igor > > When I use ssh I get prompted for a password. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/