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From: tim@doug.UUCP (Tim J Ihde)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Why does "root" worn everything?
Message-ID: <522@doug.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 88 18:46:21 GMT
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In article <9926@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>   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?

Our solution in this situation was to create a login called 'backup,' which
came up as uid zero with a special C program as its shell.  This program
then did the backup.
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Tim J. Ihde					ihnp4!ctsmain!doug!tim
(201) 560-6808

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