Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:37:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Andrew Tulloch <psyrawt@nottingham.ac.uk>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APC Back-UPS Pro Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006091736510.45538-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006090831001.44836-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Doug White wrote: > The problem with this is doing it securely. You can have one monitor > machine but having some automated way of telling the others to > shutdown that can't be tricked is a tough problem. ssh with a > null-passphrase RSA key is about as close as you can get, but that > doesn't keep root on one machine from telling the others to shutdown, > but that may not be a problem in your environment :) Isn't this what 'NUT' is for? http://www.exploits.org/nut/ /usr/ports/sysutilsnut -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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