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 > -- Daniel Berteaud FIREWALL-SERVICES SARL. Société de Services en Logiciels Libres Technopôle Montesquieu 33650 MARTILLAC Tel : 05 56 64 15 32 Fax : 05 56 64 15 32 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.firewall-services.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
