How to notify for maintenance

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 07:11:29PM +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
> The small problem now is, this box needs some moderately complex  
> maintenance from time to time which I want to do from the outside  
> (another computer). Storing root keys and software to use it on the  
> same computer running lighttpd doesn't make me feel good.
> 
> The question is: How would I securely notify another computer to do  
> this (automatic) maintenance? Whatever I think of, this requires at  
> least an ssh certificate and is pretty universal allowing it to be  
> used to trigger harmful things as well.

Turn the scenario the other way around and have the trusted 'remote'
computer initiate the maintenance at given intervals?

Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix at FreeBSD.org>
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