11 Feb
2014
11 Feb
'14
12:20 p.m.
On 2014-02-11 13:17, Ismael Bouya wrote:
(Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:56:39PM +0100) Florian Pritz :
On 11.02.2014 11:42, Ismael Bouya wrote:
It's highly unpractical to me to access the machine from where I am -- even remotely: I need someone to manually open a tunnel each time I want to access the machine --
Set up an automatic tunnel (simple service that just runs autossh or similar) or use a VPN (openvpn, tinc) and do the upgrade yourself.
That's not an option. The network on which the machine is is willingly inaccessible from outside: The sysadmin there has the principle that "a machine that works shouldn't be upgraded, because then it can break"...
That's pretty idiotic attitude. Even working machine needs security patches etc.