If someone has access to your backup box, having password is useless
because he can directly access the backed up files.

Le mercredi 09 juillet 2008 à 10:29 +0000, nadia kheffache a écrit :
> hi Paul,
> 
> I agree with you, but I think this is not prudent to have the
> passwords to clear stored in a file. 
> But if we are ever attacked from the outside?
> I think the passwords in / etc / shadow / are not clear even to root?
> we trust our users, the administrator, so everything must be allowed
> to clear? NO. 
> So, i dont have probleme with my Backuppc, because it installed in the
> private lan isolated, but, the hacker are very clever...
> 
> Regards
> Nadia
> 

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