> -----Messaggio originale-----
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 07:56:59PM +0200, Stefano Coletta wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I was wandering if there is a way to instruct amrecover to restore
> > backups only for some clients.
> > My goal is to let the client restore his own backups and do 
> not let him 
> > restore other clients backups.
> > 
> > Is there a simple way to do it?
> > 
> 
> Because of the exposure of everyone's data, amrestore and 
> amrecover must be run by root.
> 
> Nothing builtin, to my recollection, would allow what you suggest.

I think it may be achieved using server-side authentication so no matter
which user you are running amrecover from the client.

Without proper authentication I'm forced to close the firewall port 80012 to
deny access to the index daemon. It is the only way I have to limit
customers from restoring other people backups.

In this case I'm forced to do the restores for them wasting my time.
1) I have to extract their data somewhere
2) I have to give them access to it to let them browse their files
Result: no handy selective restore procedure :(

In the way I've proposed (like: customer can access only his data) I can
simply mount the tape on the tapechanger and let the customer do their
restore comfortably using amrecover.

I'm going to have a bad shape if I cannot work around this limit.

Thanks for your support however.

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Stefano Coletta
http://www.mindcreations.com