Things to remove from /rescue

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 24 12:01:49 PDT 2003


On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:50:06PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> Don't you need a network connection to use /rescue/rrestore to access
> the dump of / on a tape drive in a remote system?

rrestore & rcp are clients in this usage -- what is the firewall
protecting when using them in single user?

> One may want a secure connection to that remote system.

IPFW doesnot offer security connections -- that is what SSH does.
So I don't see the need of IPFW in this example.
 
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