On Monday 15 February 2010 09:00:05 [email protected] wrote: > Has anyone suggested using setuid? > > Why don't you write a program to do the backup. Set ownership root, group > to "backup", chmod 770 and then setuid on the program and you can remote > login as the "backup" group and execute the program with root privileges > to do just the things you put in the code. If this isn't acceptable to the > "security team" then you'd better also disable the password program. > > Just a thought.
setuid does not work on modern distros umm pam limits applies http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4 (enabling real time priority) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
