From: amos_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il
Date: Sun 21 Nov 2004 - 22:25:33 IST
Amir Hardon wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to create a simple click-n'-forget icon on a Windows(98)
> machine, that will invoke a shell script on a Linux server.
> The only solution I can think of that doesn't involve writing a client-server
> application specific for this task, is using ssh+putty, but this won't be
> simple enough because it will require more than a double-click from the user.
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
As someone else hinted - such a thing might become a security breach but
you can use a non-passphrase-protected client certificate + putty to
login to sshd and run a command. You can limit which commands can be
executed and which client hosts can connect using that client-key
through ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. So, for instance, you can write a
script which does on the server exactly the command you want to allow
and then limit that key to run only that tailore-made script from the
client.
See sshd(1) for more details (lookup "AUTHORIZE_KEYS FILE FORMAT").
--Amos
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