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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: rdump security deficiency, or am I wrong?
Message-ID: <16617@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 14:22:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: teknowle.16617
Posted: Mon Sep 14 14:22:13 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Sep-87 06:37:26 EDT
References: <498@sater.cs.vu.nl> <13971@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Reply-To: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (Mike Khaw)
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In article <13971@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Stop calling me Fred) writes:
>"workstation", let's assume it's a sun.    :-)
>
>Use:
>	rdump 0uf dumphost.dumpuser:/dev/tapedev filesystem
>
>to have the tape operations done as user "dumpuser" on host
>"dumphost".  Then "yourhost root" just has to be in the .rhosts
>file of "dumpuser".

Matt,

You don't say which version of Sun Unix you have.  I tried this under
Release 3.2 and rdump complained about a "write error".  The tape was
online and NOT write-protected.

Also, neither the 3.2 nor 3.4 documentation on "rdump" says anything about
a username qualifier on the remote tape drive.

Mike Khaw
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