I have two Debian Linux servers on the same network. I would like server A to execute this command on server B: run.sh VARIABLE
, and it needs to be able to process the output of said command – however, I do not want the contents of run.sh
to be viewable to server A. I need there to be some kind of authentication between these two machines as well.
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Your specs are somewhat vague. Assuming that run.sh
exists somewhere on server B
, the easiest would be to use an ssh forced command
and using a key-pair for the ssh connection.
You define the forced command in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
on server B
and pull the VARIABLE
out of SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND
in run.sh
.
server A
never gets to see run.sh
, is able to pass arguments to run.sh
. and running run.sh
is all it can ever do …
Perhaps the easiest and fastest way you can accomplish this is to setup a standalone python REST server. On the client side you can use any client, even curl or python requests.
How to make a simple Python REST server and client?
As authentication it can be as simple as requiring a username and password in the JSON fields.