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Date:      Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:37:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Andrew Tulloch <psyrawt@nottingham.ac.uk>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: APC Back-UPS Pro
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006091736510.45538-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006090831001.44836-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Doug White wrote:

> The problem with this is doing it securely. You can have one monitor
> machine but having some automated way of telling the others to
> shutdown that can't be tricked is a tough problem.  ssh with a
> null-passphrase RSA key is about as close as you can get, but that
> doesn't keep root on one machine from telling the others to shutdown,
> but that may not be a problem in your environment :)

Isn't this what 'NUT' is for?

http://www.exploits.org/nut/
/usr/ports/sysutilsnut

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