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On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 13:12:29 -0700, Grant wrote: |
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> > You have to grant root rsync access to the backuppc user on the |
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> > server. |
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> Isn't that a gaping security hole? I think this amounts to granting |
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> the backup server root read access (and write access if you want to |
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> restore) on each client? |
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How can you backup system files without root read access? You are granting |
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this to s specific user, one without a login shell, on the server. |
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You don;t need to grant write access if you don't want to. BackupPC has |
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an option to restore to a tar or zip archive, which you can manually |
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restore. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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It's no use crying over spilt milk -- it only makes it salty for the cat. |