home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!gumby!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!flip.cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail
- From: samuel@cs.ubc.ca (Stephen Samuel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: How do I use a remote backup unit?
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 12:36:30 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Lines: 23
- Message-ID: <1egtseINN681@flip.cs.ubc.ca>
- References: <1992Nov16.113459.30301@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <sek63l8@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <zGi-r*ML0@video1.han.de>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: flip.cs.ubc.ca
-
- achim@video1.han.de (Joachim Gothe) writes:
-
- >In article <sek63l8@zuni.esd.sgi.com>, Dave Olson writes:
-
- >[...]
- >>You just need permission. The simples test is:
- >> mt -t remotehost:/dev/tape stat
- >> mt -t guest@remotehost:/dev/tape stat
- >STOP....now I have a question.
- >Is there a way to make a remote Backup WITHOUT having a Non-Password
- >Guest-account on the mashine with the Tape?
-
- Yeah, create a .rhost file for guest like the following:
-
- somehost.domain.name root
- +@netgroup1 root
- +@netgroup1 me
-
- At that point you can give guest an impossible password, and still have
- access to do backups, etc. as root.
- --
- Stephen Samuel (604)822-9248 samuel@cs.ubc.ca
- The first prerequisite to winning is playing the game.
-