fan mail from some flounder
Sep. 9th, 2009 11:17 amToday's e-mail contains a plaintive cry from some database admin. After some decoding and much inference it seems that Oracle has been handing out a script that I wrote to enable cryptographic authentication of remote processes. But I have had to evolve the script in response to changes in ssh, and it is clear from the meagre information in the e-mail that Oracle has also modified the script from what I published.
There are two catches here.
There are two catches here.
- the plaintive cry can really only mean that the admin does not understand the function of the eval command in a Bourne shell
- I'm not prone to help there
- I'm being sent pieces of something that is supposed to be a secure operation on somebody else's machine
- I really don't want to know those details