RSYNC: Backup Solution thoughts...
tim.conway at philips.com
tim.conway at philips.com
Wed Dec 19 06:22:53 EST 2001
readonly full disk.
rsync yourhost::rootmodule/etc/shadow .
satan -f ./shadow
telnet yourhost
login as user
su -
f*** you over.
what, no telnet, only ssh?
grab an identity file and ssh in.
yes, it's bad... at least, exclude secure areas.
Tim Conway
tim.conway at philips.com
303.682.4917
Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC
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Longmont, CO 80501
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perl -e 'print pack(nnnnnnnnnnnn,
19061,29556,8289,28271,29800,25970,8304,25970,27680,26721,25451,25970),
".\n" '
"There are some who call me.... Tim?"
Philip Mak <pmak at animeglobe.com>
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12/18/2001 11:51 AM
To: Lachlan Cranswick <l.m.d.cranswick at dl.ac.uk>
cc: <rsync at lists.samba.org>
(bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS)
Subject: Re: RSYNC: Backup Solution thoughts...
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Lachlan Cranswick wrote:
> >My question is: How can I make server A give READ-ONLY rsync access of
the
> >entire disk to server B?
>
> Something similar the following in the /etc/rsyncd.conf file in the
> server A might work(?) - just put a "read only = yes" in the config.
> (plus retricting the hosts allow) I guess the path would be /
>
> path = /
> read only = yes
> uid = nobody
> gid = nobody
Wouldn't I need to put "uid = root" in order to give access to the entire
file system (but read only)? Is this safe?
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