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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:12:28 CST
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- From: Bill Harvey <HARVEY@WUVMD.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: backup methods
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- On 21 Jan 93 01:33:05 GMT, a.0013@VCC3.VCC.BC.CA (Jim Chivas Vancouver
- Community College) said:
- >Does anyone have any methods to backup their systems that will let
- >someone other than root access to some or all file systems.
-
- I wrote a one-line c program that invokes a shell script. The script
- uses mkszfile/mksysb to write the backup to tape. Then I used the setuid
- attribute to give root authority to the executable c program. That way,
- anyone who has access to that c program can make a backup with root
- authority. (Of course, the only person who has that access is our
- operator userid.)
-
- Works pretty well.
- Bill
- >Jim
-