Re: [Bacula-devel] Client run before security concern

2013-09-06 Thread Blake Dunlap
I could see where this could come into play in compliance and mutli-tenant situations. It wouldn't hurt to have access masks on the client side as far as allowed directories and / or functions like run commands, maybe even a way to set the client read-only without explicit client action like turni

Re: [Bacula-devel] Client run before security concern

2013-09-06 Thread Davide Giunchi
Il 06/09/2013 20:18, bacula-devel-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net ha scritto: > I hope bacula's designer will take care of that, because it IS an issue. I think that you missed one important thing about floss projects: if this is an important issue for you, you should develop this feature. Kern say

Re: [Bacula-devel] Client run before security concern

2013-09-06 Thread stefano scotti
2013/9/6, Kern Sibbald : > Hello, > > The only security issue is that a "user" should not have access > to the Bacula Director. Only qualified sys admins should have > such access. > > Best regards, > Kern > > That's not true. There are other security issues related to the fact that TCP bacula s

Re: [Bacula-devel] Client run before security concern

2013-09-06 Thread Jason A. Kates
You really don't have to have bacula run as root on the clients. You can also do RSA authentication. On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 14:26 -0400, Josh Fisher wrote: > On 9/6/2013 10:31 AM, Steve Lee wrote: > > > > > > Hi > > > > My head of security just raised a concern about use of bacula and > > the

Re: [Bacula-devel] Client run before security concern

2013-09-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
Bacula is designed with as much security in mind as I knew/know about. Perhaps you haven't yet had the time to read the manual, but aside from not letting a "user" get access to the Director, you can encrypt all the communications, you can also run the FD in backup only mode, and restart it in rea

Re: [Bacula-devel] Client run before security concern

2013-09-06 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/6/2013 10:31 AM, Steve Lee wrote: *Hi My head of security just raised a concern about use of bacula and the client-run-before-job feature which allows a user with access to the bacula-director server to run any command as root on any client to which the director is configured to connect

Re: [Bacula-devel] Client run before security concern

2013-09-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, The only security issue is that a "user" should not have access to the Bacula Director. Only qualified sys admins should have such access. Best regards, Kern On 09/06/2013 04:31 PM, Steve Lee wrote: *Hi My head of security just raised a concern about use of bacula and the client-ru

Re: [Bacula-devel] Client run before security concern

2013-09-06 Thread Blake Dunlap
It's honestly no worse than "restoring" a given file any where with any content from the central point vs the client's request. -Blake On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Steve Lee wrote: > > *Hi > > My head of security just raised a concern about use of bacula and the > client-run-before-job fe

[Bacula-devel] Client run before security concern

2013-09-06 Thread Steve Lee
Hi My head of security just raised a concern about use of bacula and the client-run-before-job feature which allows a user with access to the bacula-director server to run any command as root on any client to which the director is configured to connect. Has anyone else come accross this issue