Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac

Re:Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac by ccbean on Thursday October 02, 2014 @03:51PM (#8402705)

After installing Mackup, the Mac backup tool mentioned in this guide, I noticed that it backed up my entire ~/.ssh directory to Dropbox. This included my id_rsa private key, which I would prefer not to have on Dropbox, even with a key passphrase.

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Re:Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac by Artemis2 on Thursday October 02, 2014 @06:56PM (#8403555)

Generate a new key now and consider the old one as compromised.

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Re:Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac by oalders on Thursday October 02, 2014 @04:31PM (#8402923)

I don't like that it does this out of the box, but you can add something like the following to ~/.mackup.cfg

  [applications_to_ignore]
  ack
  bash
  git
  screen
  ssh
  tmux
  vim

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Re:Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac by psophis on Thursday October 02, 2014 @06:27PM (#8403457)

I would like if it defaulted to nothing. With options to add all, all but ignored, or specified applications.

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Re:Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac by matthewmueller on Thursday October 02, 2014 @04:04PM (#8402784)

Yep, it's meant for backup and restoring. I'm hoping that in future builds of Mackup you will be able to configure what you backup.

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Re:Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac by ccbean on Thursday October 02, 2014 @04:26PM (#8402904)

Right, or even if Mackup could add a Y/n confirmation prompt before copying that private key file over to Dropbox.

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