4 Remotely Managing Point Of Service Terminals With Admind And Adminc; Admind - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE 11 - SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT TOOL GUIDE 10-02-2009 Manual

Remotely Managing Point of
Service Terminals with admind
and adminc
In a SUSE® Linux Enterprise Point of Service system, admind and adminc allow you
to perform tasks like shutdown, configuration reload or application restart on multiple
Point of Service terminals from a single location.

14.1 admind

admind is a small daemon that allows simple commands to be executed on Point of
Service terminals from a remote location. Using it with adminc, an administrator can
perform tasks like shutdown, configuration reload, or application restart on multiple
Point of Service terminals from a single location. admind is typically started by the
xinetd super-server, but can be run as a regular service.
IMPORTANT: admind with Limited Authentication Only
admind does not provide strong authentication. Its level of security is adequate
only for systems that boot from the network, thus relying on the integrity of
the network infrastructure (DHCP and DNS in particular). Authentication is
provided through verification of the hostname and user against a list in the
configuration file.
admind writes its diagnostics via syslog to /var/log/messages.
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