Re: Administering a thousand hosts

[Tim Nelson]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Mark Burgess wrote:

> You should read carefully the documentation of copy on the webite.
> Using ssh to distirbute keys offers no improvement to security.
> M

	I should've been clearer.  We get our servers with the OS 
preinstalled by a hosting company.  The SSH is necessary to kick off the 
script for the first time (think of it as a post-install kickstart).  This 
script on the remote machine basically installs cfengine and runs it.  I 
don't use ssh to transfer the key; cfengine does this.  SSH just kicks off 
the initial cfengine run.

        :)

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Tim Nelson
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