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Date:      Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:13:51 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrew Prewett <andrew@kronos.HomeUnix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: security vulnerability in dump
Message-ID:  <20030107211007.L86665@slave.east.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <877kdgvjub.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>
References:  <200301071548.H07FM0J93369@asarian-host.net> <20030107183359.A51290@slave.east.ath.cx> <877kdgvjub.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>

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Today Kirk Strauser wrote:

>
> At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett <andrew@kronos.HomeUnix.com> 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.

	-andrew


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