On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Maybe I am misunderstanding the request, because Bacula has since > quite some time had very fine grain control of Client access. > There is perhaps some need for improvement of where the user can > restore the files so that he/she is not able to clobber other users > files, but other than that, as far as I know it all works fine. > Restricted Consoles and Bacula Director Access control lists ... > > On Friday 18 August 2006 16:58, Michael Brennen wrote: >> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Simon Tomlinson wrote: >> >>> I would like to configure Bacula so that individual clients can >>> only restore their own data (using bconsole on their own >>> machines). At the moment the setup I have seems to allow restore >>> of backups originating from any machine. What is the best way to >>> restrict the restores? >> >> There was a recent discussion on this. Presently Bacula does not >> restrict client access, as you have seen. There may be an addition >> to the development version soon that, if I've understood correctly, >> will restrict access by a given client to archives within its >> Catalog. With this design, when the code is available you would >> define one Catalog per client.
http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Console_Configuration.html#SECTION000184000000000000000 Nice.... I just set up a configuration per the above instructions, and it will do exactly what I wanted. I was able to restrict a client to just its own archive set and the monthly/weekly/daily pools. I didn't know that these controls existed until now. Thanks much for the followup. -- Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
