[52474] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Security Practices question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Walker)
Wed Oct 2 21:50:20 2002
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 21:53:02 -0400
From: Scott Walker <crimson@unspeakable.org>
To: Joel Baker <lucifer@lightbearer.com>
Cc: just me <matt@snark.net>,
Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>,
"Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
could use scp also. Altho not as secure you'd need null keys.
But could also have the same issues with rdist.
Joel Baker wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:48:16PM -0700, just me wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Scott Francis wrote:
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>> Can you back up that statement in /any/ way? What exactly are your reasons
>> why sudo is a worse solution (or even a bad idea)?
>>
>>In an environment where every sysadmin is interchangable, and any one
>>of them can be woken up at 3am to fix the random problem of the day,
>>you tell me how to manage 'sudoers' on 4000 machines.
>>
>>
>
>rdist comes to mind...
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