[ec2-beta] document: EC2 Ubuntu sudo Guide

Eric Hammond ehammond at thinksome.com
Wed Mar 11 12:16:44 GMT 2009


Soren Hansen wrote:
> You only need root on the destination host. You can just run rsync
> there to *pull* instead of pushing from the source host.

For security reasons, I do not allow incoming connections to my systems
which drive the process of installing new EC2 instances.  I need to
push, not pull.

In fact, this was true of the architectures I designed even before I
used EC2 which is when I came up with the su-rsync approach described in
that document.

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Eric Hammond
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