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ONE: This is to be achieved without using public key authentication; this is being avoided as a security measure. (Not negotiable) :-)
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Then may I suggest that your supervisors invest in
this technology
Seriously, create a listening
daemon each server that responds only to a specific IP address, and if really necessary, a password string. Once the string has been received, issue the shutdown command. It's a 5 line
perl program. No need to parallelize since the string is sent and your client script just goes to the next server.
