[arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

Ionut Biru biru.ionut at gmail.com
Sun Jan 31 09:32:58 EST 2010


On 01/31/2010 04:30 PM, Benedikt Müller wrote:
> 2010/1/31 Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
>> As far as pushing goes, that is a bad idea for a number of reasons,
>> the primary being one compromised root server gains you ssh access to
>> X more servers.
>>
>> -Dan
>>
> I didn't say that it must be root. One user with the only permission
> to use rsync would be the right for this task.
>
>

heh. compromised might have a lot more sense. the user can still modify 
packages and db without any restrictions.

-- 
Ionut


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