From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 14 11:45:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 DC5F216A481 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:45:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary@pattersonsoftware.com) Received: from mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony6.iinet.net.au (ihug-mail.icp-qv1-irony6.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F0F43D5E for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:45:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gary@pattersonsoftware.com) Received: from 203-206-126-46.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO tosh) ([203.206.126.46]) by mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony6.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 14 Jun 2006 19:44:59 +0800 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-IronPort-AV: i="4.06,131,1149436800"; d="scan'208"; a="336946555:sNHT29342820" From: "Gary" To: Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:44:56 +1000 Message-ID: <000001c68fa7$f5f96330$1f01a8c0@tosh> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcaPp/UrChPyjdOGRSCFr+Fpel45vw== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0624-1, 13/06/2006), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Subject: Process for cloning freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:45:05 -0000 Hello all, I intend to clone a master freebsd box (6.1-stable) so that I can roll boxes as fast as possible. These won't be identical machines btw. This comes up from time to time, but I wanted to specifically check security concerns and other things. What sensitive information may be copied that must be removed/regenerated? For example, ssh keys. How would these be regenerated (like the screenful of junk with a new install)? Are there any other similar security issues? How about any other unexpected problems? I'm thinking I only need to change the hostname I was planning to Ghost the harddrives. Cheers Gary