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Re: [cobalt-security] Re: "mirroring" software for RaQ4?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] Re: "mirroring" software for RaQ4?
- From: "Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 09:42:16 -0500
- Organization: Befriend Internet Services LLC
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
"Jon" <jjma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Fortunately the original poster is in a somewhat unique situation. CMU
can
> > be used to generare CMU export files on both the source and destination
> > servers, stored locally (never transferred).
>
> This sounds like a promising idea. I personally didn't want to use the CMU
as
> a backup system as the data seems to be sent over ftp
> which isn't secure? Am I right?
CMU creates files, but it doesn't transfer them. Whether and how you
transfer them is up to you. If you're not comfortable with FTP and you have
openSSH installed you can use sftp or scp to transfer files. And/or you can
use gnupg to encrypt the CMU output files before transferring.
> Combined with rsync with SSH should get around that issue, though.
Exactly.
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Steve Werby
President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
http://www.befriend.com/