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Browse All TopicsI want to schedule a CRON job on debian to connect to a redhat server and copy to debian the redhat's /root/.bash_history file.
Unfortunately I have 2 things working against me:
1) I can NOT schedule the CRON on the redhat server (politics)
2) I do not have the authority to make the server SCP/SSH directly accessible by ROOT
Is there any way for me to get the desired file daily from the server since I have the password for ROOT?
I would think of this as a last ditch effort, but I guess I could use some keystroke emulator on debian to ssh and then su to ROOT and then do the SCP from the remote system for me... but that relies on a fair amount of "round about" attitude and it just doesn't sound like the right way to do this.
Thank you in advance!
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