On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Gary Gendel <g...@genashor.com> wrote: > I finally decided to take the bullet and make root a role instead of a user. > All went well except for my nightly backup. > > I have a backup server that rsyncs my various collection of Linux, > OpenIndiana, Windows, and Mac machines nightly. Without root as a user, how > do I set up rsync to ssh onto the machine and retrieve the root system files > on OpenIndiana?
There are two ways as I see it: 1. Start rsyncd (see http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/rsync+daemon+service+on+OpenIndiana) and set up a share for '/' which you then can rsync against. You can either do this directly over the network (unencrypted) or SSH into the machine and connect to rsyncd through localhost. 2. SSH in as dedicated unprivileged user, which then have permissions to run rsync with root permissions though sudo. This is the option I use for backups, and I have a line such as the following in the sudo configuration, which only allows the unprivileged user to retrieve files from the server, and not write files: backup ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender * -- Venlig hilsen / Kind regards Jeppe Toustrup (aka. Tenzer) _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
