Oops, I see I left out a negative see below.
On Thursday 01 December 2005 19:31, Kern Sibbald wrote:
...
> >
> > BTW, FD's right to refuse to backup data without encryption seems to be
> > the same level of "violation" of the 'director should decide on
> > everything' philosophy as the refusal of backing up some directories ;)
> > Or am I wrong?
>
> I don't see how you can make the FD refuse backing up some directories
> without adding code into the FD that knows about what directories and files
> should be backed up. That implies decentralizing the backup decision. Your
> case seems to me to be rather special in that you do not trust the Bacula
> administrator. Solving that problem is something that is a priority at this
> stage -- perhaps some day.
The last sentence *should* read: Solving that problem is *not* something that
is a priority at this stage -- perhaps some day.
Sorry for the confusion.
>
> Also, the suggestion made by a user to run the FD as non-root and perhaps
> use groups, could help resolve some of your concerns.
>
> > bye,
> > tomas
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Best regards,
Kern
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