On Tuesday 09 January 2007 22:52, Dan Langille wrote: > 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."
Though true, I suspect that will just cause additional support problems. > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
