Joe Krahn wrote: > (Maybe this should be posted to -devel?) > Unrestricted remote root access by a non-root user is generally not a > secure design. There are many ways to restrict the access to backup >
This seems like a good chance to explain how I handle the rsync security -- I prefer it over the sudo method and did not like the idea of a remote ssh root login. For remote backups, I setup a nonpriv account that I configure for password-less login from the backup server. I then setup rsyncd to listen only on localhost on the remote host. I also set an rsyncd.secrets file and configure the rsyncd.conf shares to be read-only. To backup, I create a tunnel using the password-less login and then backup over the tunnel. For local backups, you obviously don't need the tunnel -- just connect to localhost. 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/
