Axel Beckert wrote:
>
> The more paranoid users who just want their data backed up, not the
> whole machine, won't give root permission to the backup server's ssh
> key. So we ssh into the user whose home directory we want to back. No
> problem so far.
>
> But now I've got a few such boxes used by two or more persons (a
> professor and his phd students) and all want their home directory
> backed up, but they don't want to give out root login rights.
>
[...]
>
> + Giving multiple DNS aliases to the computers in question and then
> seeing them als multiple hosts. (Hope, BackupPC doesn't several
> hosts having the same IP address.)
Backuppc has it's own alias concept if you don't mind making each user
look like a separate machine. Make a fake host name in the backuppc
host file with the user as the owner, give them a copy of the public ssh
key and tell them to set $Conf{ClientNameAlias} to the real machine name
while they are setting up a backup method and target that makes them happy.
--
Les Mikesell
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