From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 11:30:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 745F337B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:30:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81BAA43EA9 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:30:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.honeypot.net (pooh.honeypot.net [10.0.5.128]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h07JUKEV083956 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:30:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.honeypot.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pooh.honeypot.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-8) with ESMTP id h07JUKEw031525 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:30:20 -0600 Received: (from kirk@localhost) by pooh.honeypot.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-8) id h07JUKRl031522; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:30:20 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: security vulnerability in dump References: <200301071548.H07FM0J93369@asarian-host.net> <20030107183359.A51290@slave.east.ath.cx> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 07 Jan 2003 13:30:20 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20030107183359.A51290@slave.east.ath.cx> Message-ID: <877kdgvjub.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett writes: > Normally the master.passwd is backed up regularly by cron (/var/backups), > so maybe no need to backup it again. Were you joking? Surely you're not implying that there's no need to copy the data to tape (which is the most common use for dump) since it now exists in two places on the same hard drive - are you? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message