From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 12:30:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68DC637B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:30:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from screech.weirdnoise.com (adsl-64-164-11-126.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.164.11.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B4143EA9 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:30:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from edhall@screech.weirdnoise.com) Received: from screech.weirdnoise.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by screech.weirdnoise.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h07KUOBT005310; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:30:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from edhall@screech.weirdnoise.com) Message-Id: <200301072030.h07KUOBT005310@screech.weirdnoise.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Andrew Prewett Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, edhall@weirdnoise.com Subject: Re: security vulnerability in dump In-Reply-To: Message from Andrew Prewett of "Tue, 07 Jan 2003 21:13:51 +0100." <20030107211007.L86665@slave.east.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 12:30:24 -0800 From: Ed Hall Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Today Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett writes: > > > Normally the master.passwd is backed up regularly by cron (/var/backups), > > > so maybe no need to backup it again. > > > Were you joking? Surely you're not implying that there's no need to copy > > the data to tape (which is the most common use for dump) since it now exists > > in two places on the same hard drive - are you? > If /etc and /var are on the same HD, then it's not a production > machine or the setup is simly wrong. Ri-i-ight... So I should add a second HD to every server in the rack, hmmm? It's standard practice to make /var its own filesystem, but where do you get the idea that it should be on its own drive? -Ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message