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veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu wrote on 08/12/2003 03:20:39 PM:

> bpbackup isn't normally a privileged command.  It is, however, 
> limited to reading the files/directories that Unix permissions 
> allow.  bpbackupdb is a root-only command but I suppose you could 
> just chmod it to a SUID program & open the execution permissions. 
> 
> Why allow the user to backup the catalog?
> 
See i have a DB/Netbackup server. I use cron to run the DB shutdown, then 
bpbackup, then start up the db again and submit bpbackupdb.

I'm moving netbackup to a separate server. I don't want to do root 
ssh/rsh. I want to control everything from the DB server.

Karl
PS: db server is running progress.
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<br><font size=2><tt>veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu wrote on 
08/12/2003
03:20:39 PM:<br>
<br>
&gt; bpbackup isn't normally a privileged command. &nbsp;It is, however,
<br>
&gt; limited to reading the files/directories that Unix permissions <br>
&gt; allow. &nbsp;bpbackupdb is a root-only command but I suppose you could
<br>
&gt; just chmod it to a SUID program &amp; open the execution permissions.
&nbsp;</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>&gt; &nbsp;</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>&gt; Why allow the user to backup the catalog?</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>&gt; &nbsp;</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>See i have a DB/Netbackup server. I use cron to run
the DB shutdown, then bpbackup, then start up the db again and submit 
bpbackupdb.</tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>I'm moving netbackup to a separate server. I don't
want to do root ssh/rsh. I want to control everything from the DB 
server.</tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>Karl</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>PS: db server is running progress.</tt></font>
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