KBTAG: kben10000138
URL: http://www.securityportal.com/lskb/10000100/kben10000138.html
Date created: 07/08/2000
Date modified: 10/08/2000
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Authors(s): Kurt Seifried seifried@securityportal.com
Topic: Network Shell (NSH)
Keywords: Network/Telnet, Network/Encryption
Network Shell (NSH) is a commercial product with all the bells and whistles (and I do mean all). Its got built in support for encryption, so its relatively safe to use (I cannot verify this completely however, as it isnt open source).
Ease of use is high, you cd //computername and that logs you into that computer, you can then easily copy/modify/etc. files, run ps and get the process listing for that computer, etc. NSH also has a Perl module available, making scripting of commands pretty simple, and is ideal for administering many like systems (such as workstations). In addition to this NSH is available on multiple platforms (Linux, BSD, Irix, etc.) with RPMs available for Red Hat systems. NSH is available from: http://www.networkshell.com/, and 30 day evaluation versions are easily downloaded.