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Re: Administering a thousand hosts


From: Tim Nelson
Subject: Re: Administering a thousand hosts
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:20:50 +1100 (EST)

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Mark Burgess wrote:

You should read carefully the documentation of copy on the webite.
Using ssh to distirbute keys offers no improvement to security.
M

I should've been clearer. We get our servers with the OS preinstalled by a hosting company. The SSH is necessary to kick off the script for the first time (think of it as a post-install kickstart). This script on the remote machine basically installs cfengine and runs it. I don't use ssh to transfer the key; cfengine does this. SSH just kicks off the initial cfengine run.

        :)

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