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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 20:00:32 +0100
From: Daniel Bergman <d-b@home.se>
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> My pay job is developing a distributed source management system which works
> by replication.  We already have users who put all the etc files in it and
> manage them that way.  Works great.  It's like rdist except it never screws
> up and it has merging.

I'm just curious, what about security? Is this done in clear-text? 
Sounds dangerous to put /etc/shadow, for example, in clear-text on the
cable.

Sorry for getting off-topic.

Regards,
Daniel

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