Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Cluster File System Installation Guide (5900-1510, April 2011)

Configuring the secure shell

or the remote shell for

communications

This appendix includes the following topics:

■ About configuring secure shell or remote shell communication modes before

installing products

■ Configuring and enabling ssh

■ Enabling remsh

About configuring secure shell or remote shell

communication modes before installing products

Establishing communication between nodes is required to install Veritas software

from a remote system, or to install and configure a cluster. The node from which

the installer is run must have permissions to run remsh (remote shell) or ssh

(secure shell) utilities. You need to run the installer with superuser privileges on

the systems where you plan to install Veritas software.

You can install products to remote systems using either secure shell (ssh) or

remote shell (remsh). Symantec recommends that you use ssh as it is more secure

than remsh.

This section contains an example of how to set up ssh password free

communication. The example sets up ssh between a source system (system1) that

contains the installation directories, and a target system (system2). This procedure

also applies to multiple target systems.

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