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- From: merrick@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Tom Merrick)
- Subject: Re: backup methods
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:14:05 GMT
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- In article <9301210826.AA43894@ampere.Physik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> wacker@AMPERE.PHYSIK.UNI-DORTMUND.DE (Klaus Wacker) writes:
- >Jim Chivas Vancouver Community College writes:
- >>
- >>
- >> Greetings:
- >>
- >> Does anyone have any methods to backup their systems that will let
- >> someone other than root access to some or all file systems. How can
- >> I give read access, assuming that is what is required, to someone
- >> other than root.
- >>
- >> I am coming from a system that allows me to setup temporary access
- >> to all files from the system console. Unix does not have the same
- >> concept as a system console, only su root users.
- >>
- >> Comments?
- >> Jim
- >>
- >
- >I use sudo to achieve the above. I created a user named backup who is
- >authorized to sudo one shell script, owned and maintained by root,
- >which contains our standard backup procedure.
- >
- >Sudo is described in the Nemeth/Snyder/Seebass book. It is available
- >at various ftp sites. If I remember right, I installed it without too
- >many difficulties using CC=bsdcc and /usr/ucb/install.
-
- The question that I have is will sudo work across NFS mounted disks?
- My experience shows that root owned programs will not work across NFS
- mounted disks, so you need to su to root before backing these up.
- >
- >Regards,
- >--
- >
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- Tom Merrick
- Ohio State University
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