Re: utilisateur backup

2002-07-23 Thread Boris Daix
Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Boris Daix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>- Can I safely give an SSH key to my backup user without any >> passphrase so that it could be automated via cron ? > > You can use `ssh-keygen -f single_action_key' to create a key for remote > execution

Re: utilisateur backup

2002-07-22 Thread Sam Vilain
Boris Daix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >- Can I safely give an SSH key to my backup user without any > passphrase so that it could be automated via cron ? You can use `ssh-keygen -f single_action_key' to create a key for remote execution of scripts. On the remote end, add this key to th

Re: utilisateur backup

2002-07-19 Thread Boris Daix
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > So the worst that can happen if the key gets compromised is that the > attacker can trigger a backup of your system. Conceivably this could be > a DoS, at worst. But it's a very common setup. In fact, the standard > method of mirroring Deb

Re: utilisateur backup

2002-07-19 Thread Boris Daix
Mathias Palm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I am using it to backup a bunch of maschines on one tape also using > cron. I found it easy to configure and am quite satisfied. You can even > configure Amanda in a way that it only transfers changes. On the other > hand, Amanda is meant to dump ba

Re: utilisateur backup

2002-07-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 03:58:18PM +0200, Mathias Palm wrote: > >- Can I safely give an SSH key to my backup user without any > > passphrase so that it could be automated via cron ? > > I'd say, the security is that of your original account then. Say there > are the computers A and B, whe

Re: utilisateur backup

2002-07-19 Thread Mathias Palm
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 11:53:58AM +0200, Boris Daix wrote: > Hi all, > >I'd like to make backup via cron and I saw there were a user > named "backup" in passwd file. My problem is that the backups should > travel via LAN to another machine (running Woody too), so that > they backup eachother

Re: utilisateur backup

2002-07-19 Thread Wouter van Gils
Ok, take a look here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hdup/?topic_id=42%2C137 (http://www.miek.nl/projects/hdup/hdup.shtml) I've been using it for quite some time now to transfer backups secure and encrypted. Take a look. - Wouter [On 19 Jul, 2002, Boris Daix wrote in "utilisat

utilisateur backup

2002-07-19 Thread Boris Daix
Hi all, I'd like to make backup via cron and I saw there were a user named "backup" in passwd file. My problem is that the backups should travel via LAN to another machine (running Woody too), so that they backup eachother in fact. I'd like to use rsync to transfer only changes, with SSH to in