> > Short of finding some remotely exploitable vulnerability, you'll have > to visit each server and login. Imagine if you *could* create IDs > without root authority? :D > > Are the servers identically configured? > > If you can login remotely as root you can automate some of them via > expect. What issues were you encountering? > > If you're doing this it might be the perfect opportunity to add some > sort of remote management or authentication to the systems. I cannot do any changes to the environment therefor I cannot configure centralized authentication :-) It's fun stuff. I managed to find a way with perl and Net::SSH::Expect. The simple expect script would enter the su password and die without sending the adduser commands. Thanks everyone