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- From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:11:09 -0000
... ## security warnings First, a big warning: By checking /etc into version control, you are creating a copy of files like /etc/shadow that must remain secret. Anytime you have a copy of a secret file, it becomes more likely that the file contents won't remain secret. etckeeper is careful about file permissions, and will make sure that repositories it sets up don't allow anyone but root to read their contents. However, you *also* must take care when cloning or copying these repositories, not to allow anyone else to see the data. Hmmm! Of course for a while I was using plain old git on /etc until it dawned on me how incredibly stupid that is. Now I'm thinking config files are better suited to backing up and/or snapshotting than version control. VC is not for everything even if it's theoretically possible to wrap it in scripts to kludge away the problems. Config files, ideally, for the most part, converge relatively quickly to a more or less final state don't they? I used to think I wanted to see the history of their evolution but it turns out all I want is a copy of what worked. -- Mike Small smallm at panix.com
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