On Friday 24 October 2008, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
>Gene Heskett schrieb:
>> Also one should never have a 'localhost' in this list file as its a
>> security hole. All machine are localhost, and you sure don't want somebody
>> to recover your stolen tape to their machine, or for you to get confused
>> as to which tape goes with which machine. That however is amanda's forte,
>> amanda can back up the whole local network so you only need one 'server'.
>
>Amanda accept a hostname "localhost" that is comming over the network? If
> this is possible, shouldn't this be fixed? I think not the posibility to
> configure it is the security hole itself.

I don't know & will let Dustin or Jean-Louis answer that.  I haven't ever 
tried it myself.

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