RSYNC: Backup Solution thoughts...

[tim.conway at philips.com]

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
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Philip Mak <pmak at animeglobe.com>
Sent by: rsync-admin at lists.samba.org
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?