On 12/19 10:11 , Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Tino Schwarze wrote: > > >> I found an article on an article somewhere online that I should > >> add the > >> BackupPC user to the sudoers file, see the /etc/sudoers file below > >> for the > >> syntax I used: > > > > IIRC, this is only for local backup via rsync. > > I think that article was talking about using another user than root > on the client machine. It is more secure to add a user on the client > machine and allow that user to use rsync via the sudoers file (so it > can run rsync as root) than using root on the client machine. > > Here's a post to this list that explains setting this up: http:// > www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03002.html
Thanks for posting that, Nils. :) I don't suppose that can be added to the docs on the backuppc website? I'll edit the article a bit if need be. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
