On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Mark Lidstone wrote:

It would still be worth pointing out what a huge security risk the rcp
command is, and if they insist on using their scripts at least get them
to remove the r* accounts setup stuff and use something like rsync over
an encrypted channel (why bother protecting the file on the disk if
you're going to potentially transfer it in plain text over the network).

So have you modified amanda to encrypt your network transfers?
It doesn't do that out of the box you know.

-Mitch