backup system files (and permissions) over ssh
Chuck Wolber
chuckw at quantumlinux.com
Thu Oct 12 16:07:17 GMT 2006
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, rsync-mail-gateway at nasbackup.com wrote:
> Quote: "Without root: Use a non-root account and use passwordless sudo
> in the script."
>
> sounds interesting, can you explain how am i suppose to do that ? who
> runs the script ? when ?
Check the man page for the sudoers file: "man 5 sudoers". Specifically
you're looking for the NOPASSWD tag. From there, you'd be able to use the
"sudo -c" (along with some other arguments) to run your script as root.
..Chuck..
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