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Though rssh is written to work with OpenSSH, it
will probably work with other implementations of SSH. Also,
rssh is written and tested on Linux systems, but
should compile cleanly and work on any POSIX.2-compliant system. It
is verified to work on the following platforms:
- A wide variety of Linux distributions, on IA32 and IA64
hardware
- Compaq Tru64 Unix
- Solaris 2.x - 8 (under certain conditions -- see the security
link)
- AIX 5.1
- HP/UX 11.00 (PA-RISC)
- HP/UX 11.22 (IA64)
- Irix 6.5
Currently, it does not work on (at least most of) the
*BSDs, nor on OS X. They lack the wordexp() function, which rssh uses
for command line argument expansion. Until they have such a function
(which is defined by POSIX.2), or until I get bored enough to write a
replacement, rssh will not work with the BSDs out of
the box.
Update, 7 Jun 2003: Jacques A. Vidrine
reports that FreeBSD 5.0 now has the wordexp() function, and rssh
compiles cleanly on it, though he has not tested it. I still do not
have any confirmation that it will work on FreeBSD 5, but it seems
like a safe bet.
If you're on a BSD system without the wordexp() function, you could
work around this by obtaining a copy of the wordexp() function's code
from, say, glibc2, and creating your own wordexp.h header. Compile
wordexp.c manually, and link it against the other .o files. If anyone
has code with a BSD license that can be plugged into
rssh to make it work on BSD systems, I will gladly
add it to the source code. This might be easy enough to snag from
FreeBSD 5, but I'll have to look into it.
If you have success using rssh with some other
implementation of SSH, or using it on other platforms, feel free to
send e-mail to the
rssh mailing list to let me know. If you have problems compiling
or installing rssh on your favorite platform,
please send me the complete configure output, and any compilation
errors generated. Thanks!
If, on the other hand, you are having trouble getting
rssh to work on a platform known to work, then
before you send me e-mail, please read the
FAQ. It's not that long, so no excuses!
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