[Tutor] accessing another system's environment

[Bill Allen]

I apologize for not have been clear previously.   What I am trying to access
are the Windows system environment variables.   The same ones that are
listed out if you type the set command at a command prompt in Windows.


--Bill





On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:11, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:

>
> "Bill Allen" <wallenpb at gmail.com> wrote
>
>  I have times when it is useful for me to check the environment of a user
>> system on our lan remotely while trouble shooting and issue with them.
>>  Now,
>> this is quite easy to do while I am using a windows system via the
>> computer
>> management console.
>>
>
> I think we are meaning different things by "environment"?
> Can you give a specific example?
>
>
>  However, I am trying to do this via a linux workstation
>> (which is joined to the domain, etc.).   I cannot find a native
>> facility to duplicate the computer management functions, so I thought I
>> would write a program to fill the need.
>>
>
> Anything you can do locally you can do on the remote
> machine with a combination of ssh, rsh, rlogin, telnet etc.
> ssh is the safest but requires a bit more admin to set it
> up properly for maximum convenience.
>
> Having got remote access its just a case of figuring out
> which of the 500 or so Unix commands you need to
> use to do the job... :-)
>
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Alan Gauld
> Author of the Learn to Program web site
> http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
>
>
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