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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Things to remove from /rescue
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:25:32PM -0400, Mike Makonnen wrote:
> > So let me restate DES case without examples.
> > 
> > It may be that someone wishing to recover a hosed box will both
> > 
> > a) want access to some network-hosted resource, and
> 
> >From what I can see the only network resource one could access is an 
> nfs mount, since it seems unlikely you could rely on anything
> outside /rescue (such as ftp or ssh) being available.
> 
> > b) want to maintain network security while accessing that resource.
> 
> What security? There are no network services running in single-user,
> so what is there to secure?
> 

Don't you need a network connection to use /rescue/rrestore to access
the dump of / on a tape drive in a remote system?  One may want a
secure connection to that remote system.

-- 
Steve