Re: [TCLUG:19811] Amanda encryption/security?

[Gabe Turner (officer) <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

> 	based on what I saw of the developers' presentation, 2.5 is the technology of the future; always has been, always will be... ;>
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> 	the current thinking is to run the traffic over a VPN tunnel of some sort.

You could just wrap it in stunnel.  It's easy enough.

> 	now we just need to get SSH support into 'tar'. (it already will work over the r* connection)

Why won't ssh support tar?  Just setup hosts.equiv and .rhosts files on the target machine.  Works quite nicely, actually.

Gabe
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