Re: [webmin-l] MySQL scheduled backups

[Roger B.A. K. <ro...@qu...>]

Jamie Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 05:08, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
>   
>> Is it possible to allow users to perform scheduled database backups -- 
>> not just on-demand?  It seems to me I can schedule them as administrator 
>> but not as an ordinary user -- have I missed a switch?
>>     
>
> At the moment, it is not possible for ordinary users to setup MySQL
> backups. The reason is that this all scheduled backups are done as root,
> and allowing any user to setup his own would let potentially un-trusted
> users write to any file on the system with root privileges .. which
> would be a serious security hole.
>   


Fair enough... but it seems that you could restrict the output 
directories the same way you do for the directories for upload/download 
and file browsing.