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[Discuss] Reading Linux book
- Subject: [Discuss] Reading Linux book
- From: dbarrett at blazemonger.com (Daniel Barrett)
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:39:18 -0400
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On March 27, 2014, Mike Small quoth: > First, a big warning: By checking /etc into version control, you are > creating a copy of files like /etc/shadow that must remain > secret. [...] This is one reason I use the "sparse tree" method I mentioned yesterday, which versions only the files that one cares about. I don't see much reason to version /etc/shadow or other data files that are usually updated by tools and rarely modified by text editing. -- Dan Barrett dbarrett at blazemonger.com
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