-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern Sibbald Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 1:13 PM To: Tomas Vasko; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Feature request
Please always copy the list. On Wednesday 30 November 2005 21:07, Tomas Vasko wrote: > > > I have a suggestion to item 9 -- it would be nice, if administrator of > > > FD machine was able to specify the paths that only could be backed up > > > i.e. to prohibit backing up of another than enumerated directories. > > > > This is already the case. The director specifies what directories are > > going to be backed up. None of the projects will change that ... > > i was likely not clear enough, see bellow > > > > This probably could be another item also, forasmuch as it has sense to > > > restrict director also in non encrypting scenario -- to allow > > > semi-trusted director to backup FD's machine public data without need > > > for chrooting and to not be worried about private directories being > > > backed up/stolen. > > > > The FD already specifies what director can attach to it, so I don't > > really understand what a semi-trusted director is. For me, the director > > is either trusted -- i.e. authenticated or not. You will need to be more > > specific in your suggestions -- perhaps discussing them on the > > bacula-users list would help > > well, i mean a case when administrators of a computer running FD and of > computer running Director and SD are two different people and probably in > two different companies. The both agrees on regular backups of the > /path/to/the/pub directory on FD's computer. In current baculas > implementation is there nothing what the administrator of FD can do to > prevent the administrator of Director to back up thw whole FD's computer > including the private directories. > Why not just run the FD as a non-root user and limit the directories allowed to be backed up using standard file permissions? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
