Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:26:19 -0700 From: Flemming Froekjaer <flemming@froekjaer.org> To: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup to remote tape drive, with rdump. Message-ID: <3B2650BB.4E507BB9@froekjaer.org> References: <XFMail.010612091728.mj@isy.liu.se>
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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
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