On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 04:05:34PM +0000, Mark Vitale wrote: > > Giovanni, > > > On Sep 13, 2018, at 3:12 AM, Giovanni Bracco <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > I have read about the butc & backup security update. > > > > We run daily the AFS backup and I would like to understand if I need just > > to update the backup server with the new butc/backup modules or I need also > > to update all our file servers in order to match the new security > > improvements connected to backup. > > Your question seems to be mostly concerned with securing your backups, > so I'll answer that specific question first. > If we just consider the OpenAFS backup system in isolation, > I'm pretty sure you do not need to make changes to your fileservers > in order to pick up the butc security fixes. (Ben, please chime in if > you disagree). > I believe you only _need_ to update butc, but of course it's good > practice for all the backup system components to have the same version:
You need an updated backup(8) to talk to the updated butc, but I think that Giovanni had this in mind already. -Ben _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
