quote=" . . so that we don't need to either provide user account . . " that is what chaoson said ! With rsh you must provide user and password on the remote host ! alsolike telnet ! I remember to all of you that rsh or telnet are an input/outputredirection of a console thru sockets ! ! cheers 2008/10/14 Kosala Atapattu <kosala.atapattu@xxxxxxxxx>:> running commands with Netcat... even wierder....>> This is not the answer to your question. May be you can try good old> "rsh" with the "hosts.allowed"... In some internal networks (withing> the same net zone) I have used that lot... where security is not much> of a concern.>> Kosala>> 2008/10/14 Christian Grunfeld <christian.grunfeld@xxxxxxxxx>:>> Hi,>>>> strange question in a ssh discussion list !>> May be you can use netcat on both sides with standar input and output>> redirected from/to a console.>>>> Cheers>> Christian>>>>>> 2008/10/13, chaoson <chaosonou@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:>>> Hi,>>>>>> I'm running openssh-4.3p2.>>>>>> I need to ability to run a command on trusted machine remotely. So far as I know, we can use two ways to login to remote machine:>>> 1) Provide user name and password>>> 2) Public key authentication>>>>>> My question is that can we disable the SSH authentication so that we don't need to either provide user account or the public key? Does anyone has the idea? Thanks>>>>>>>>>>>> ___________________________________________________________>>> 雅虎邮箱,您的终生邮箱!>>> http://cn.mail.yahoo.com/>>>>>>>>> --> Kosala> --------------------------------------------> Disclaimer: Views expressed in this mail are my personal views and> they would not reflect views of the employer.> --------------------------------------------> blog.kosala.net> www.linux.lk/~kosala/> www.kosala.net>