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Re: Encrypting selected files ...

From: Pat Farrell <pfarrell_at_pfarrell.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:27:12 -0400

Les Mikesell wrote:
> But if you care about version control, you must include the parts of
> code/configuration involved in your repository.

No, you put development versions of the configuration in the developer's
SVN. Not operations. And you have ways to override stuff.

> They are often need to be included in a file of code or configuration
> that is someone else's design. Bad design or not

Its a very bad design. Again, if you care about security, you have no
choice.

>> Most theft and fraud are inside jobs. You can not allow simple access to
>> the source code to allow access to production.
>
> Nor is it a good idea to put things into production that aren't under
> version control.

I did not say use nothing on the production side.

What I said was that developers have zero access to the production
configuration. They have access to the developement and/or testing
configuration

Ops can have their own SVN, but no access from the development engineers

>> This does not prevent the operations folks from having their own SVN
>> inside their security perimeter. But its simply wrong to put production
>> passwords in the general engineering SVN.
>
> So how do you roll out code/configurations to a bunch of machines with
> the ability to roll back without storing it somewhere that the people
> who develop/test it can access?

You seem to be thinking that development engineers are allowed to touch
production. That is not how secure or even well run sites are operated.

-- 
Pat Farrell
http://www.pfarrell.com/
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