[Canberra-pm] Runing commands on server.

[Finn Blucher]

I went the boring way,
    used putty. I had already tried using cgi to do the job, but the browser
seemed to be timing out waiting the hour or so for the backup to run. Hadn't
really looked into what the problem was. Ta for the help.

Finn.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain 'Spoon' Truskett" <iain-pm at dellah.org>
To: <canberra-pm at mail.pm.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Canberra-pm] Runing commands on server.


> * Finn Blucher (finn at finerdetails.com.au) [17 Dec 2002 10:11]:
> > not really sure where to start with this. Basically I would like
> > people to be able to double click on an icon on their windows desktop
> > and it executes commands on a linux server. I was thinking about a
> > simple tcp client server. I'm not really worried about transmitting
> > username/password in clear text, it's a very small site, but if
> > encryption is easy enough to add I may as well. It's mostly needed to
> > start backups manually. It probably would only need to be capable of
> > running one predefined command. Any ideas, or has this all been done
> > before?
>
> One possibility would be to install putty, and have the desktop icon do
> something like "putty.exe user at serverhostname command" (or similar, it's
> a while since I've used Windows). They double-click, it prompts them for
> a password, it runs the command on the server.
>
> With a bit of ssh tweaking you can make it so that they can't log in to
> a shell.
>
>
> cheers,
> --
> Iain.
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