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On 11/11/2011 10:20 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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>> And if I pull, none of my backed-up systems are secure because anyone |
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>> who breaks into the backup server has root read privileges on every |
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>> backed-up system and will thereby "gain full root privileges quickly." |
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> IMO that depends on whether you also backup the authentication-related |
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> files or not. Exclude them from backup, ensure different root passwords |
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> for all boxes, and now you can limit the infiltration. |
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If you're pulling to the backup server, that backup server has to be |
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able to log in to and read all files on the other servers. Including |
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e.g. your swap partition and device files. |
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