Re: Call for testers of restricted rmt(8)

2015-09-15 Thread Alexander Hall
On 09/12/15 09:13, Sebastien Marie wrote: > First, some generals remarks: > > - The debug feature (not documented) defeat the `-r' flag purpose. How do you mean it defeats it? The purpose of the '-r' flag is to stop a user from creating and/or writing to files. Obviously said user may not dictate

Re: Call for testers of restricted rmt(8)

2015-09-12 Thread Alexander Hall
On 09/11/15 19:33, Sebastien Marie wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 05:03:54PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: Is *anyone* but me using rdump(8) + rmt(8)? I use dump(8) for doing remote backup, but I don't use rmt(8), due to plaintext storage on remote side. I don't understand. What's

Re: Call for testers of restricted rmt(8)

2015-09-12 Thread Sebastien Marie
First, some generals remarks: - The debug feature (not documented) defeat the `-r' flag purpose. I think the code should be either: - enclosed in #ifdef DEBUG (prefered way) - not permitted if `rflag' or `wflag' are setted - Adding tame(2) may be a good way to enforce the policyi, but

Re: Call for testers of restricted rmt(8)

2015-09-11 Thread Sebastien Marie
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 05:03:54PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: > > >> > >> Is *anyone* but me using rdump(8) + rmt(8)? > > > >I use dump(8) for doing remote backup, but I don't use rmt(8), due to > >plaintext storage on remote side. > > I don't understand. What's "plaintext storage"? :-) >

Re: Call for testers of restricted rmt(8)

2015-09-11 Thread Alexander Hall
On September 11, 2015 6:27:26 AM GMT+02:00, Sebastien Marie wrote: >On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:58:52AM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: >> I'm going wide with this diff I've been pushing for quite some time >now. >> >> Is *anyone* but me using rdump(8) + rmt(8)? > >I use

Re: Call for testers of restricted rmt(8)

2015-09-10 Thread Sebastien Marie
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:58:52AM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: > I'm going wide with this diff I've been pushing for quite some time now. > > Is *anyone* but me using rdump(8) + rmt(8)? I use dump(8) for doing remote backup, but I don't use rmt(8), due to plaintext storage on remote side. >

Call for testers of restricted rmt(8)

2015-09-09 Thread Alexander Hall
I'm going wide with this diff I've been pushing for quite some time now. Is *anyone* but me using rdump(8) + rmt(8)? *If you are currently using rdump/rrestore + rmt, I urge you to test this diff to make sure it causes no regression. It shouldn't, but you've been warned. So, anyway, this diff