From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 13:37:48 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 9F24337B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:37:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FBD743E4A for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:37:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1042407465.940ea7@mired.org) Received: (qmail 843 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2003 21:37:45 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 7 Jan 2003 21:37:45 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15899.18601.253736.141278@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 15:37:45 -0600 To: Andrew Prewett Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security vulnerability in dump In-Reply-To: <20030107211007.L86665@slave.east.ath.cx> References: <200301071548.H07FM0J93369@asarian-host.net> <20030107183359.A51290@slave.east.ath.cx> <877kdgvjub.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> <20030107211007.L86665@slave.east.ath.cx> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.67 (Whirlaway) 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 In <20030107211007.L86665@slave.east.ath.cx>, Andrew Prewett typed: > 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. It may not be a machine you'd want to use for what you use production machines for, but there are a fair number of production uses where you only have one hd, or where having /var and /etc on the same file system are acceptable. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message