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From: pz@munsell.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Remote dumps as root (was Re: Why does "root" worn everything?)
Message-ID: <1610@pinney.munsell.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 01:04:50 GMT
References: <5209@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <9269@sunybcs.UUCP> <7454@brl-smoke.ARPA> <9926@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <9318@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: pz@pinney.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki)
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In article <9318@sunybcs.UUCP> kensmith@sunybcs.UUCP (Ken Smith) writes:
> It's too bad rdump uses a privileged socket, it'd be
> nice to be able to remote dump workstations from a non-root account.  

I asked Sun what to do about this.  (Isn't software support wonderful)
They just told me to make /etc/dump setuid root, setgid operator.
None of my backups are done by someone logging in as root.

Was this stupid?

					pZ
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