Thread-topic: Encrypted backup using sparse image - Issue
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On 4/20/08 7:56 PM, "Demetri" <email@hidden> wrote:
> The execution of everything I mentioned leaves log entries. No offence
> but your reply assumes much and those assumptions are invalid.
I know how applescript and iChat work. My assumptions are based on that.
>
> For example, If someone can physically access my server, there is
> nothing that can be reasonably done to stop them from accessing the
> disks. A disk can be easily pulled out. They are not encrypted. If I
> have to worry about my network operations staff allowing someone to
> connect a monitor, keyboard and mouse illegitimately, I have much
> bigger problems.
If you're running in a user login, you have a weaker security posture.
>
> For servers running under someone's desk or similarly unsecured, sure,
> having it logged in is a problem...
>
> If the autologon fails, the condition will be immediately clear as an
> external system monitors the servers and pages me when there is a
> problem /and/ mitigation.
Which is not as necessary when using utilities designed for such things. How
many processes does it take purely to make sure that iChat's background app
is running AND executing the script correctly?
>
> Some may writing server utilities in script could be considered Rube
> Goldbergian as compared to writing them in C or another real
> programming environment.
Shell and the like *are* real languages.
>
> The approach to using is cron is admittedly old. But wasn't cron
> developed for AT&T UNIX System V? I first saw it on the PDP-11 just
> about 30 years ago.
The age of the approach is immaterial. It's the design of the approach.
--
John C. Welch Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions
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