Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ittc!fpb From: fpb@ittc.wec.com (Frank P. Bresz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: rdump as non root Message-ID: Date: 23 Apr 91 02:34:26 GMT Sender: news@ittc.wec.com Distribution: usa Organization: Westinghouse, ITTC, Pgh, PA. Lines: 19 Hi There, I would like to know if there is a way to use rdump without being root. On the Sun Workstations I can dump so long as I have read access to the raw disk partitions. The reason I want to do this is to perform backups to an exabyte tape drive without haveing to give the remote tape machine root privelages on the local machine or vice versa. I have my own super intense backup script which currently backs up 32 partitions around my network on a nightly basis. Temporarily I had to hack it so the the ultrix call feeds dd after making the system I am trying to dump have a setuid version of rdump (yes I know this is a security issue in itself). Any pointers appreciated. -- | () () () | Frank P. Bresz | Westinghouse Electric Corporation | \ /\ / | fpb@ittc.wec.com | ITTC Simulators Department | \/ \/ | uunet!ittc!fpb | Those who can, do. Those who can't, simulate. | ---------- | +1 412 733 6749 | My opinions are mine, WEC don't want 'em.