Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 12:24:16 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: randys@amigo.net Cc: marc@milestonerdl.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rsync, ssh and using root. Message-ID: <200112111124.fBBBOI902371@Magelan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <200112102348.fBANmG182366@smtp1.amigo.net>
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On 10 Dez, Randy Smith wrote:
[NFS+IPSec+rsync]
> This avoids the problems with SSH and root access but may lead to other
> problems that I am not aware of. One good thing about this is that restoring
> to the other machine is reasonably easy. Remount boxa:/nfs/dir as read-write
> and then reverse the paths in the rsync command above.
>
> Others may be able to point out any problems/improvments that exist with this
> plan.
-> A lot of network traffic and a slower update if you didn't use
--size-only (which may only a good idea in specific situations).
The file on the remote box may need to go completely over the network
in the worst case (if a checksum has to be calculated for the whole
file, don't know how often this can happen).
Bye,
Alexander.
--
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...Oh, wait a minute, he already does.
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