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From: richl@penguin.USS.TEK.COM (Rick Lindsley)
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Subject: Re: rdump security deficiency, or am I wrong?
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Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 05:51:02 EDT
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matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Matt Crawford) wrote:
> ) >Use:   rdump 0uf dumphost.dumpuser:/dev/tapedev filesystem

Mike Khaw replied:
> ) 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".

matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Matt Crawford) rereplied:
> Unless this feature is new in 3.3, I don't know why it didn't work
> for you.

Mike, it's possible that whatever non-root user you used couldn't open the
tape drive. Are your tape drives all world-writable, or could they have
been protected somehow?

Rick