Question about "rexec"

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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
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