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Re: central administration techniques



On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:41:22AM -0700, nrvale0 wrote:
> > maybe have a look at cfengine?
> > or apt-cache search / freshmeat / google for other options
> 
> I was down this road just a few months ago. cfengine is nice except
> that the author doesn't believe that 'administrative information' is
> something that should be protected and thus has no plans to move from
> rsh to an SSH tunnel or SSL. Imagine syncing /etc/shadow or some other
> information that should be kept secret over RSH. Yuck. 

    It it's on the wire, it should be encrypted.

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