Re: [Dump-users] Is there a remote dump/restore Howto anywhere?

[Stelian P. <st...@ca...>]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Michael Heldebrant wrote:

> I'm looking for a good howto on how to get both semi secure(suid dump and
> rcmd?) 

This is not secure at all (it enables you to do network backups
but all data/passwords are transmited in clear text).

> and really secure (ssh) remote dumps working. 

If you want security (and accept to have lower speeds) this is the way
to do it...

> I've looked around in
> the man pages and the linux-howto archives but haven't found a good set of
> steps to follow. 

Did you look also at the dump-users archives ? :)

> If anyone has some tips or knows where this document exists
> please email me back directly as I am not subscribed to the mailing list as
> of yet.

No comment :(

> I've tried with ssh but I'm not sure how to get RSA passphraseless
> authentication working since I'm relatively new to ssh and it's many
> options.

Man ssh-agent

Man sshd, search RhostsRSAAuthentication option.

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