[7764] in Kerberos
Re: Mundane kerberos question: srvtab management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randall S. Winchester)
Wed Aug 14 09:41:12 1996
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 09:27:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Randall S. Winchester" <rsw@Glue.umd.edu>
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199608140533.BAA11104@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Ken Hornstein wrote:
:
: And as a site note, how many people _really_ use a floppy/tape drive/whatever
: to send the srvtab to various machines, and how many people just ftp it
: over in the clear? I know that the stuff in the srvtabs should never go
: in the clear, but since you only do it once ...
:
: --Ken
:
Then of course the one part people often forget is that when the go and
remotely backup / on their systems it goes across in the clear again, and
again, and again.... (This should be documented!)
I seldom if ever backup / on any of my machines, but I had to come up with a
bunch of global configuration management tools so I would know what differs
when a disk fails.
Randall
