This issue came up on IRC yesterday. The statement in question is at http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Bacula_Security_Issues.html :
"The Clients (bacula-fd) must run as root to be able to access all the system files." Someone wanted to run FD as non-root. I replied that would be fine provided the UID/GID has permission to access all the files you want to backup. I propose to replace the quoted sentence with: "The Clients (bacula-fd) must run as whatever GID/UID is necessary to access whatever files you wish to backup. In addition, if you wish to restore over existing files, bacula-fd will require sufficient permission to do that. In most cases, this means root." Comments? -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
