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Re: [suse-security] automatic backups over ssh/scp
- From: teo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 01:21:33 +0300
- Message-id: <20010901012133.A5714@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Steffen!
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
> * Maarten J H van den Berg wrote on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 18:29 +0200:
> > Instead, the best (and almost completely secure in every aspect) is to
> > use an RSA certificate, and put the command, client-IP etc. which the
> > client uses inside the authorized_keys file on the server: That will
> > make sure that when using that specific certificate, the client is FORCED
> > to run EXACTLY the command specified.
>
> It's not trivial to configure access via rsync to some backup
> server. rsync needs root privileges to keep ownerships. Rsync
can you elaborate a bit on this please?
I am using rsync -e ssh w/ no problem so far.
what do you mean about keeping ownership?
-- teodor
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
> * Maarten J H van den Berg wrote on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 18:29 +0200:
> > Instead, the best (and almost completely secure in every aspect) is to
> > use an RSA certificate, and put the command, client-IP etc. which the
> > client uses inside the authorized_keys file on the server: That will
> > make sure that when using that specific certificate, the client is FORCED
> > to run EXACTLY the command specified.
>
> It's not trivial to configure access via rsync to some backup
> server. rsync needs root privileges to keep ownerships. Rsync
can you elaborate a bit on this please?
I am using rsync -e ssh w/ no problem so far.
what do you mean about keeping ownership?
-- teodor
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