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From: wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William E. Sommerfeld)
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Subject: Re: Why does "root" worn everything?
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Date: 15 Mar 88 02:02:49 GMT
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In article <9926@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  I hope you say that somewhat casually. I consider backups to be a
>routine administrative action, and don't have the luxury of being able
>to do the daily in single user mode. If not root, then how would you do it?

If you're using the 4.x-oid `dump' and `restore', it's simple.  Dump
reads the raw disk, so all you have to do is to create a `backup'
pseudo-user and give it group read (but not write) access the raw
devices you want to have backed up.

You will have to either hack dump to put /etc/dumpdates into backup's
homedir, or let backup be able to create files in /etc; we do the
latter, by making /etc writeable by group `operator' with the sticky
bit set and by having backup own /etc/dumpdates.

					- Bill