From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 16:23:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E9A14D98 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:23:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mail.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.247]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA45859; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:23:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3831F564.83C0C00A@owp.csus.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:23:00 +0000 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Hartley Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup several hosts with dump References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Hartley wrote: > > > > rdump 0auf tape_machine:/dev/nrst0 filesystem. > > > >> I've looked into Amanda, but it is overkill for what I want to do. > >> My question is what syntax do I use with dump (or do I use rdump?) > >> to back up the other machines? What do I need to do on the other > >> machines to enable them to be backed up? > > > > The tape_machine has to allow root (or bin) from the remote machine > > to login without a password, I believe. You can run this from tape > > machine by putting an rsh (ssh) remote_machine in front of the > > rdump command. And then the remote machine will have to allow root > > (bin) of the tape machine to login without a password. > > I guess my question then becomes: is there a way I can enable the > computers to log on to each other as needed without sacrificing > security? Using rsa authentication with ssh may be the best bet for getting around the interactive password problem and keeping a reasonable level of security. Unfortunately I haven't had the time to play rsa authentication is ssh to make it work, but from everything I've read about it thus far it seems to be the best mix ( see the ssh manpage for more info ). -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message