>>>>> On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:52:41 -0500, Dan Langille said: > > This issue came up on IRC yesterday. The statement in question is at > http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Bacula_Security_Issues.html : > > "The Clients (bacula-fd) must run as root to be able to access all > the system files." > > Someone wanted to run FD as non-root. I replied that would be fine > provided the UID/GID has permission to access all the files you want > to backup. I propose to replace the quoted sentence with: > > "The Clients (bacula-fd) must run as whatever GID/UID is necessary to > access whatever files you wish to backup. In addition, if you wish to > restore over existing files, bacula-fd will require sufficient > permission to do that. In most cases, this means root." > > Comments?
Restore will also be limited for new files, always setting the owner to the user that is running bacula-fd and similarly for the group. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
