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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Daniel Bergman <d-b@home.se>
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Subject: Re: SMP/cc Cluster description
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Hi!

> > 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.

This is going over System Area Network. You don't encrypt your PCI, either.
-- 
"I do not steal MS software. It is not worth it."
                                -- Pavel Kankovsky
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