Warren Young wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> [...] > > This requires that the public key for localuser on host1 exists in > host2:.ssh/authorized_keys. It also requires "PermitRootLogin yes" in > /etc/ssh/sshd_config, which is unfortunately the default on CentOS. (I > usually turn it off.) Unfortunately? I could not live w/o it ;-) > Also realize that remotecmd can be a very complex thing, not just a > simple command. You can use pipes and other things through ssh. If using IO redirections or pipes, be sure to quote them correctly: [localuser at host1 ~]$ ssh root at host2 remotecmd > /tmp/file will create /tmp/file with the output of remotecmd on host1 (!), while [localuser at host1 ~]$ ssh root at host2 remotecmd ">" /tmp/file will create /tmp/file on host2. Cheers frank