Re: [Server-devel] Backup of user home

2009-09-14 Thread John Watlington
On Sep 15, 2009, at 1:12 AM, Raul Gutierrez Segales wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 19:43 -0400, John Watlington wrote: >> You are correct. Since your backup script by definition needs to >> read ALL data, >> regardless of ownership or permissions, you will have to run it with >> superuser >> pr

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of user home

2009-09-14 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:12:24AM -0400, Raul Gutierrez Segales wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 19:43 -0400, John Watlington wrote: > > > > Why don't you consider using the rsync server, instead of invoking it > > through a user ? > > > > What is the advantage of doing this instead of a pull u

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of user home

2009-09-14 Thread Raul Gutierrez Segales
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 19:43 -0400, John Watlington wrote: > You are correct. Since your backup script by definition needs to > read ALL data, > regardless of ownership or permissions, you will have to run it with > superuser > priviledges. Unless, if this isn't a huge security hole, we can r

Re: [Server-devel] Backup of user home

2009-09-14 Thread John Watlington
You are correct. Since your backup script by definition needs to read ALL data, regardless of ownership or permissions, you will have to run it with superuser priviledges. Why don't you consider using the rsync server, instead of invoking it through a user ? John On Sep 14, 2009, at 3:

[Server-devel] Backup of user home

2009-09-14 Thread Rodolfo D.
Hello: I'm working on a backup and restore feature for our schoolservers, and I got stuck on home directories of laptops The backup works like this.. based on the backup script provided by dsd, and also based on our specific features.. I placed all important data in a directory "/library/backup"

[Server-devel] public keys not getting written to authorized_keys file during registration

2009-09-14 Thread Hamilton Chua
Hello, I'm not sure if anybody has experienced this yet. Using XS version 0.6d5, when I register a user the public key doesn't get written to the authorized_keys file for the new user. So far we have been able to trace it to the create_user script in /home/idmgr. It seems the value of $pubkey get

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

2009-09-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Thank Martin! > Your email really helped me. No prob. I generally agree w your notes, except that reuse is heavily crossed by - languages and dialects - local culture, mores and MoE study programme not sure what Curriki's approach is. I

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

2009-09-14 Thread Caroline Meeks
Thank Martin! Your email really helped me. Here is my current thinking on lesson plans (not courses) Dimension - Lesson Plans can be found. Level 1 - People who did lesson plans have notes in varies places, if you want to replicate what someone else has done you have to find them and ask them to

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

2009-09-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 9:08 AM, David Van Assche wrote: > > Actually, points 4.1 and 4.2 have been integrated into moodle for quite a > while now. Perhaps its the flexibility which is making these possibilities Yes, but they are awkward for young users. I think Caroline refers to "easier to use

Re: [Server-devel] [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

2009-09-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
Some notes I think may be interesting. On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > For the Moodle advocates. I am a big Moodle fan. But I don't think its our > right now solution for the work we are talking about doing. > > >1. Our target, elementary school teachers are not cur