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Re: [Bacula-users] Bat and ACL

2009-05-27 05:34:01
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bat and ACL
From: Silver Salonen <silver AT ultrasoft DOT ee>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:29:48 +0300
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 11:34:43 Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 27.05.2009 09:59, Silver Salonen wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Does anyone know what's the optimal/minimal ACL for a user using Bat? I 
know 
> > that wx-console used commands .status, .clients etc.
> > 
> > What commands are needed by Bat to be usable?
> 
> I'm not sure... probably all the commands, including all the .commands.
> 
> The problem I see is that BAT is, currently, not designed to handle 
> restricted access.
> 
> You'd probably have better results if you don't limit BATs access by 
> commands, but to limited pools, clients, etc.
> 
> As far as I know, BAT reads the known resources on startup. If it 
> doesn't see some pools, for example, it will not try to work with 
> those. If, on the other hand, it know about all pools, and gets errors 
> from some commands it passes to the DIR, chances are that BAT will 
> simply crash.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Arno

Thanks for the suggestions!

I compared admin-ran Bat's commands to the user-ran one and figured out the 
missing commands.

I ended up with such ACL for commands:
==========
CommandACL = status, run, .status, restore, list, help, query, .filesets, 
.storage, .defaults, .messages, .backups, .api, .jobs, .clients, .filesets, 
.msgs, .pools, .storage, .types, .levels, .sql, .mod
==========

Now everything seems to work quite OK, but when I try to restore a file from 
Version Browser, I'm taken to the restore-window, but then I get an error:
==========
bat: console/console.cpp:560 send: .mod restoreclient="black-fd" fileset="Full 
Set" storage="storage-black" replace="always" when="2009-05-27 12:20:47" 
bootstrap="/var/db/bacula/bkp-dir.restore.5.bsr" 
where="/mnt/da1/bacula/restores" priority="10" yes

bat: console/console.cpp:585 DisplaytoPrompt
bat: console/console.cpp:628 got: No authoriztion for "where" specification.
==========

Any idea where this authorization problem can be fixed?


PS. As server has to accept a ".sql" command from Bat and it seems that it 
just executes any SQL-commands based on that, it's quite a dangerous command 
to allow - a modified version of Bat or any other client could then do 
anything with the database, couldn't it?

--
Silver

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