My first setup of a remote backup system using rsync looked somthing like this: backupserver# rsync -uav root@remote:/ /mnt/backup/remote/ This was automated using cron and ssh keys. However with this setup the backupserver is granted more acces than needed. In short if the backup server account is compromised the remote server will too.
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Login process oops
January 14th, 2009
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The discovery, reporting and effect of a security flaw.
