AIX

Hi experts,

I am an AIX/Unix admin in my company. I have been asked by one user to distribute .profile from one server to all other servers in the network. This is what she has asked me:

"Is there a way for me to save and use one .profile that I have personalized with aliases for all my AIX/LINUX access?"
I was thinking of making a script to run on the host sever (with the .profile file) so that it copies the .profile to all other servers (AIX and Linux). Or is there a better way I can achieve that?

Thanks.

Well, gnu parallel can do it in parallel, but generally, unless you make all home dirs a mount of some common dir, you do N copies. It should be a one time deal, usually, but it can be scripted in case you want to move it.

The ssh command scp is nice for this. If you set up one ~/.ssh/* so 'ssh localhost pwd' works password free, and then scp -rp ~/.ssh that to all the other hosts, then you can scp password free, great for scripts. (Ironically, the lines added for localhost in known_hosts will fail elsewhere, but just remove them and it will make new ones.) Everywhere you copy your ~/.ssh, you will extend password-free ssh and scp (and even sftp if you must) access to all other such hosts. It generally needs to be copied even less often than the .profile file.

Thanks. I got what you're trying to say here. But I am still struggling to script it down, i am new to it...

Code:

for host in x y z
do
  scp -p .profile $host:.
done

while read host
do
  scp -p .profile $host:.
done <host_list_file

Thanks i'll surely try it now..