On: Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac

[ccbean]

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.

[louis-paul → ccbean]

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

[oalders → ccbean]

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

[psophis → ccbean]

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

[matthewmueller → ccbean]

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.

[ccbean → matthewmueller]

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