[wplug] FreeBSD tar and operator group permissions
larry at daberko.com
larry at daberko.com
Wed Jun 18 15:35:10 EDT 2008
Since our FreeBSD list is gone, I'm posting this here.
My workplace uses BackupPC for backing up Linux boxes. I tried to make
FreeBSD work with it and am getting permission errors.
I created a backuppc user, added it to the operator group. I also
generated a ssh key and copied the public key to the backup server. The
backup is done by doing rsync over ssh.
I get these in the logs:
Remote[1]: rsync: opendir "/var/audit" failed: Permission denied (13)
Remote[1]: rsync: opendir "/var/backups" failed: Permission denied (13)
Remote[1]: rsync: opendir "/var/crash" failed: Permission denied (13)
etc etc
Now, reading up on it, it appears that the operator group has read access
to the *raw* disks, and not the files themselves. This would work better
with dump?
Am I correct?
How can I fix it? I'd rather not have to give root access in order to
backup the system.
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