Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 14:22:04 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Robert Mooney <rmooney@iss.net> Cc: cjclark@home.com, NoCoN FLiC <jslat@hotmail.com>, jonf@revelex.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh. Message-ID: <20000120142204.C72914@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000120134203.10075E-100000@arden.iss.net>; from rmooney@iss.net on Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 01:46:52PM -0500 References: <20000120104418.A72685@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000120134203.10075E-100000@arden.iss.net>
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 01:46:52PM -0500, Robert Mooney wrote: > > You don't have to use root for remote backups. Granted, if someone > compromises your backup account, you're in serious trouble enough, > assuming the account has read access to your drive devices. But it's > still somewhat better than using root. I was not completely clear. The machine that does the dump does not require root, the machine that receives it does. The receiving machine, restore(8)s the dump. The second machine is a backup for the first, so it keeps a "live copy" of the other's filesystem. In order to do this, the account needs root privileges. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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