From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 9 14:37:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC73B37B75C for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 14:37:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA67300; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:37:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:37:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Doug White Cc: Andrew Tulloch , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APC Back-UPS Pro In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message