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From: sechrest@mist.cs.orst.edu (John Sechrest)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Remote dumps as root (was Re: Why does "root" worn everything?)
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Date: 22 Mar 88 19:13:31 GMT
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We have set up rdump to take a flag that identifies the 
user to log in as. We have .rhosts that have root on the remote
machines set up as backup on the machine with the tape. This lets 
the person doing dump on the remote machine access the tape 
without root privlages on that machine. But you still need root
privalges on the machine doing the dump. 

Our next step is to set up rdump to be setuid to root but only executable
by backup. But we have not gotten to that point yet.




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