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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Root permission on NFS
Summary: Light Intensity
Message-ID: <680@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 90 19:13:34 GMT
References: <376@node17.mecazh.UUCP> <11590023@hpubvwa.HP.COM>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <11590023@hpubvwa.HP.COM>, johnb@hpubvwa.HP.COM (John Blommers) writes:
> This is not the brightest thing to do to your servers, you know,
> since any root user on any client can now accidentally do a dread
> rm * on some part of the server file system, buying you big
> headaches.

How then do you back up a remote machine?  The REALLY bright thing
to do is to provide rdump with HP-UX.  I know, I know, it's in V7,
but I truly don't believe that V7 actually exists, just the manuals
are shipped to bewilder the innocent :-)  I got my first V8 release
announcement from HP on Friday :-)

By the way, I was wandering around an SG machine the other day, kicking
the tires and such, and it looks like they can allow root access from a
particular machine, instead of the blanket access of the kernel patch.
Is this something that HP will provide, say in a future (sigh) release?

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