Re: [BackupPC-users] Preferred method to backup as "root"?

[Rainer Z. <Use...@zo...>]

kac...@co...(Ski Kacoroski)  15.05.05 09:56

>>>Why tar/rsync cannot be used by non root?
>>
>>
>> They will run, and you can set up ssh to use any remote
>> user you want.  However, only root is guaranteed to be able
>> to read all the files.  If you are sure that some other user
>> has access to all the files you care about backing up then
>> it would work.
>>

>I use backuppc to backup some customer data.  I work with each
>customer to determine if I need root access or not (depends on what
>they want backed up).  In most cases, they create a local user with
>the permissions I need.  In cases where I need root access, they edit
>/etc/sudoers and I run "sudo /bin/tar" in the backuppc command line.
>This seems to work just fine and provides some protection for me and
>them.

Interessting, thanks.

How do you manage backup of data like /etc/shadow and other 
files that might contain (maybe plaintext) passwords? 

Imagine your central backup PC becomes cracked. 
You would have to declare all customers PC to be compromised...


Rainer---<=====>                         Vertraulich
             //
           //                              
         <=====>--------------ocholl, Kiel, Germany ------------