B. Cook wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm setting up a new machine trying out different things.. > > Do I need to setup sshd/rsync so that the backuppc 'user' can have > full access to / ? > > Or is there a better, more efficient way? > > Thanks in advance. > >
I prefer to let rsyncd do the privilege raise by simply having an rsyncd daemon listening only on 127.0.0.1 and even then only with an rsync password. I also set the rsyncd share to readonly=yes (I can always change it temporarily for a restore.) Then I set the backuppc client config to point to 127.0.0.1 for the client. I've never really liked the sudo suggestions... seems fairly vulnerable to passing (possibly destructive) extra flags,etc., to the underlying rsync command. But I'm a bit of a security nut. The downside is that all of the file traffic has to go through loopback... but I don't notice it. Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
