Re: disallow remote root / allow remote root by key

2008-05-30 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Mike Clarke: On Friday 30 May 2008, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Server - Remote root login is disallowed but I need to fetch snaphosts produced by rsnapshot and for this I need remote root access. Backup machine on a dynamic IP - connects to server using key-based authentication. Can this

Re: disallow remote root / allow remote root by key

2008-05-30 Thread Yuri Pankov
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, I wonder if it is possible and if so how to go about the following. Server - Remote root login is disallowed but I need to fetch snaphosts produced by rsnapshot and for this I need remote root access. Backup machine on a dynamic IP - connects to server using key-

Re: disallow remote root / allow remote root by key

2008-05-30 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 30 May 2008, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Server - Remote root login is disallowed but I need to fetch > snaphosts produced by rsnapshot and for this I need remote root > access. Backup machine on a dynamic IP - connects to server using > key-based authentication. Can this machine (and only

Re: disallow remote root / allow remote root by key

2008-05-30 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Odhiambo Washington: rsync from the backup machine. Can't you modify the rsnapshot code to make the permissions on the files I don't think I can. :) it creates to be accessible by a special group, and create a user in this group which you can then use to login from the backup machine? Just

disallow remote root / allow remote root by key

2008-05-30 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, I wonder if it is possible and if so how to go about the following. Server - Remote root login is disallowed but I need to fetch snaphosts produced by rsnapshot and for this I need remote root access. Backup machine on a dynamic IP - connects to server using key-based authentication. Ca