On Wednesday 26 May 2010 16:43:34 Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > Hi all, > > as referring to bug #1532 bacula by default installs the bacula > administration GUI with permissions so that only root can execute > it. > > Why? > > I do not see any reason why I should not use bat as normal user (or > bconsole). > > For example I always used to use "bat -c ~/.bacula/bat.conf" to run > bat as normal user from my workstation to control the bacula-dir > running on the backup server. > > This is always more secure than running the whole app as user root.
We try to install Bacula by default in a reasonably secure way. Since bat by default can get to *all* files, it is not appropriate for us to allow all users to access it. If you need it executable from a user account (I do), then it is up to you to modify the permissions. The extra time it takes you to make the change is trivial, in my opinion, to the potential damage that could be done by installing it open by default. Kern > > TIA > -Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
