On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I want to backup my servers files using tar from a central Location.
> To do this im using ssh with RSAauth to log from my backup server to all the
> other servers.
>
> I log using ordinary user to be on the safer side but then I can't read some
> directories ( for instance: /var/spool/croon - rwx______ )
> I thought of few options:
>
> 1. adding the ordinary user to root Group
> 2. add access to some directive like chgrp or chmod
> 3. tar as root - I don't like this option
4. Backup as root locally to somewhere that is accessible by local
oridinary user
5. Perform tar as root through ssh, but limit the connection using the
commannd= option of the autorised_keys file
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Tzafrir Cohen
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