Re: [Devil-linux-develop] thoughs about additional options to save-config (followup)

[<hzu...@ra...>]

On 03/26/2004 07:09:59 AM Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale wrote:
>Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...> writes:
>
>>> Background: This way one could run
>>>   ssh root@firewall "save-config -dump" > etc.tar.bz2
>>> on a remote host.
>>
>> Hmmmm, like that. Of course one would have to have root login enabled,
>> which I usually don't allow.
>
>That's pretty much what I have been doing for some time with a
>modified version of the save-config script. Now if we could just use
>tftp to load the config... :-)

Is there really interest loading the config over the network?

I was thinking about that feature for a while, but this is only interesting
for LANs, not for DMZ.
I was also more thinking about using wget from a https server, or some
other way to ensure a secure communication.

Heiko