From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 10:26:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sleipner.eiffel.dk (sub19-229.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.19.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9041337B40B for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:26:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from flemming@froekjaer.org) Received: from froekjaer.org (sub19-225.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.19.225]) by sleipner.eiffel.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5CHRFQ09636; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:27:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from flemming@froekjaer.org) Message-ID: <3B2650BB.4E507BB9@froekjaer.org> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:26:19 -0700 From: Flemming Froekjaer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Micke Josefsson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup to remote tape drive, with rdump. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Micke Josefsson wrote: > On 11-Jun-01 Flemming Froekjaer wrote: > > Does rdump use ssh? > > No it uses rsh style login. > > If you can > > rsh -l root othermachine ls > > then you should also be able to do the rdump. Thanks. This did the trick. I didn't have rshd enabled in inetd. > > No, I don't alow ssh root logins. Is there a way where I can do remote > > backups without alowing root logins? > > I don't think so. Perhaps you can change permissions on /dev/nrsa? Actualy you can. You just have to be member of the operator group. You have to be root to do a restore, but that's ok. I do a lot more backups than restore :-) \Flemming To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message