Question

I have two Linux Machine,1st is machine X ,other is machine Y i want to write a java program which will run in machine X..eq test.java ..and when i run that java program it should ask for login credential of machine Y and will execute some command for example
ls -l in machine Y automatically after login. and it should display the output of ls -l
in machine X.
How to do it please help me????

Answer 1

Why use java for this. This can be easily done by using SSH i.e.

$ssh user@server <command>

If you are running this command on machine X

[user@X~]$ ssh user@Y 'ls -l'
password:

total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 user group 4096 Apr 13 21:19 fooo
drwxr-xr-x 3 user group 4096 Jun 17  2009 bar