[Tfug] Passwords in Plain-text? Shell scripts and CIFS

[Christopher Robbins]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Rich <r-lists at studiosprocket.com> wrote:

> What about doing it the other way around?
>
> Install Cygwin and have the Windows machine periodically rsync its
> stuff to the Linux box. That way you can tunnel through ssh.
>

This ended up being the way to go...It was really easy to setup and
get going quickly.  It took a minute or two to wrap my head around
installing ssh and rsync so that they worked (it was odd - I had to
use a seperate package called "cwRsync"), but once I got that
figured out, it was easy...

Installing an SSH server (a la the recommendation by Matt) was
out of the question...A bit of a hot political issue - the last time we
ran an SSH server off of the domain controller, we got hacked and it
became a giant mess.  I was asked not to use an SSH server (enter
rsync).

The ssh-key pair method helped here too...

I've done this successfully. I had the backup script in All Users'
> startup items. If you convince your users to log out every day, this
> works well.
>

That's the plan...Most of my users are out at 5, so it should be a
non-issue.


> I didn't get around to plugging in an annual backup because they
> didn't want to pay me any more. This was because I opposed installing
> Vista and Office 2007 as being too expensive -- "how about a trial of
> Linux and Open Office?" No, that would cost nothing, so can't be of
> any value. I can be pretty convincing, but you can't educate pork.
>

Ron White said it best - "You can't fix stupid"  :)

Thanks again,

     - Chris

Chris Robbins
Systems Programmer
Department of English - University of Arizona
http://www.homerengineeringcorp.net
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