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From: giant@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Buc Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Using rdist or equivalent without superuser status ?
Summary: How to get functional equivalent of rdist wo/ being su?
Keywords: rdist, hosts.equiv
Message-ID: <6214@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Dec 89 05:25:35 GMT
Expires: 31 Dec 89 08:00:00 GMT
Sender: giant@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Buc Richards)
Reply-To: giant@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Buc Richards)
Organization: Stanford University
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I am trying to maintain the same version of software across many UNIX
systems, however using rdist requires access to the hosts.equiv file
on all the receiving machines.

Is there a method or script that will perform the functional
equivalent?

Thanks for the assistance.

        Rob Richards                              @ @
        Supercomputer Support Staff                 >
        Stanford University                        -