RE: [BackupPC-users] Running BackupPc as a backup service

[Michael P. <mi...@so...>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gordon Milne [mailto:gm...@ms...] 
>
>2.  How difficult would it be to add a feature whereby the backup user
assings
>a sub-account username and password to a particular directory in their
backup?
>I would like this feature so that users (customers) can assign this
username
>and password and then give this info to their accountants, who will then
login
>and restore their accounting data file, without having full access to all
the
>users files.

I do this on our lan so that users only have access to their own backups.
Set up the hosts file with the "user" field matching the account name they
auth with.

For example, in our case, we use mod_auth_smb, so for the user field I make
sure it matches their NT Domain login name.  I assume this will work with
any auth method supported by the web server & browser.

#host dhcp  user    moreUsers
host1  0    user1
             ^---    this is their NT Domain login

Actually, in our case, I do not want users getting the email so our file is
more of the format:

#host dhcp  user              moreUsers
host1  0   domainadminaccount user1
host2  0   domainadminaccount user2
host3  0   domainadminaccount firstname\ lastname

The users can still access their backups, but the "domainadminaccount" can
access all backups as well as receive all email notificatons.

Unless you can figure a way to give them secure access to their config.pl,
you would need to configure that for everyone.

Hope this helps.

Mike