On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:10:13PM -0500, Martin, Jeremy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed amanda supports Kerberos authentication but I was asked to find out 
> if it possibly supports "PKI" (public key infrastructure) instead of 
> Kerberos, or if there is any way to make it use OpenSSL/SSH for the transfer 
> protocol instead of the "proprietary" amanda protocol normally used? Or is 
> there any easy way to make Amanda encrypt the tar files (I'm using GNUTAR 
> instead of dump) before sending it over the network?

Several people have reported using gpg as the encryption technique.
The replace gnutar with a shell script that does encryption during
the backup passes, but not during the estimate phases (output == /dev/null).

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