Cloning a FreeBSD system

Damien Fleuriot ml at my.gd
Mon Feb 27 17:36:16 UTC 2012



On 2/27/12 5:54 PM, Stephen Cook wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> I'm relatively new to FreeBSD but I'm enjoying it so far.
> 
> I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on
> cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g.
> setting up clusters of replicated databases, web server pools, etc).
[snip]
> 3) Create new SSH keys
>     3a) For host keys, I can delete the existing ones in /etc/ssh/ and
> reboot, is there a better way?
>     3b) Should I bother changing the SSH keys for any users I have? It
> is basically one user (I use to log in with) which will be the same
> across the board anyway.
> 

Why bother changing keys if this is only a "fake network for you to toy
with" ?
Let them be.


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