On Sun, 6 May 2012, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote:
There is one other option. Use ssh public key authentication to bypass
the whole PAM/role nonsense and restrict what the user can do with the
command option. See sshd(8) in its AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT section
That is what I do. For even mo
There is one other option. Use ssh public key authentication to bypass
the whole PAM/role nonsense and restrict what the user can do with the
command option. See sshd(8) in its AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT section
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Dave Pooser wrote:
> On 5/6/12 8:04 AM, "Jeppe Tous
On 5/6/12 8:04 AM, "Jeppe Toustrup" wrote:
>2. SSH in as dedicated unprivileged user, which then have permissions
>to run rsync with root permissions though sudo.
This is how I do it, which also has the advantage of letting me give sudo
permissions to run specific scripts that (for example) quie
On 05/ 7/12 01:04 AM, Jeppe Toustrup wrote:
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Gary Gendel 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,
OpenIndia
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Gary Gendel 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.
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