How far do you want to take your paranoia?  I take it pretty far
as a system admin, but I think I know where to draw the line.

I am not sure why you insist on clinging so stubbornly to 
localhost for DLEs, but I have read enough on this group in 
the last 9 months (as long as I have been a member) to agree 
with the people that seem to know what they are doing.  
Repeatedly, the people having problems and using localhosts, 
report that the problems are reduced or eliminated when they 
use properly documented FQDNs for their systems.

I am tired of beating this dead horse.

Go your own way, but don't expect us to agree with it.

Don

Donald L. (Don) Ritchey
E-mail:  Donald.Ritchey AT exeloncorp DOT com


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Mcdermott [mailto:smcdermott AT questra DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:18 PM
To: donald.ritchey AT exeloncorp DOT com
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: how to get columns to line up in summary?


donald.ritchey AT exeloncorp DOT com on Wed  6/08 12:13 -0500:
> And anyone who can get local root on his/her workstation 
> can use 'amrecover' to obtain any filesystem backed up from 
> 'localhost', since localhost is valid on any system.

then what prevents joe user from just modifying /etc/hosts
on his machine to pretend he is the system he wants to
restore from?

what prevents DNS admin from changing his zone files so he
can recover /etc/passwd on some machine he doesn't control
but wants to?


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