Re: Backup Agents

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Geo. wrote:

> [...] so I was wondering if anyone had ever researched how secure the

Some superficial observation I made regarding two "enterprise" backup systems (I will call them A and B) a while ago:

1. Agent A: connection not encrypted, the agent insists on getting the root's password in plaintext (!) from the server.
2. Agent B: connection not encrypted, based on Sun RPC, using the weak Unix authentication perhaps "strengthened" with the check of the peer's IP address.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation." Received on Mon Mar 24 18:04:28 2003