Coda File System

Re: Coda for home directories and NIS vs. Kerberos

From: <coda_at_bobich.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:21:02 +0000 (GMT)
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, u+codalist-p4pg_at_chalmers.se wrote:

>>> Of course, just give the cron jobs relevant credentials.
>>
>> Again by piping the password into clog? :-/
>
> What is wrong with that? No difference to using a Kerberos keytab
> which is a generally accepted practice :)

*cringes*

Having a plain text password in a file really disagrees with my sense of 
basic information security...

But I do accept your point that it's not all that different from the 
alternatives.

Gordan
Received on 2008-01-31 10:22:21