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Group: linux.debian.project · Group Profile
Author: Tollef Fog Heen
Date: Sep 1, 2008 22:40

]] Peter Palfrader

| - install sendfile/saft on all machines so you can do
| sendfile foo.tar.gz weasel@merkel
|
| Unfortunately sendfile doesn't use crypto, so who knows what happens
| to the stuff you send. And it's yet another network facing server - I
| don't know if anybody ever did a real audit on it either. Also, I
| have no idea if it's still actively maintained these days. Lack of
| crypto seems to suggest that there certainly isn't any new development
| going on, and hasn't in ages.

[...]

| What other options did we forget?

NFS over OpenVPN between all debian hosts and a directory which is mode
1777 ? Sendfile over OpenVPN would also work and be less insecure
(though still no auth).

Passphraseless keys limited to sftp would also be an option, but on a
per-user basis.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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