On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:59:31AM -0500, Charles Ballowe wrote:
> Did you know that with netbackup you can write a script and run a
> command that copies it to a unix client, executes it, and deletes it
> when it's done, all as root? Method for doing so left as exercise to
> the reader. Hint -- read the "update_clients" script.

And for Windows clients, you can certainly get and put any file on the
server from the master. I don't know if you can execute it after you've
put it there.

You have to trust your backup admins. 

        .../Ed

> On 10/24/05, Anthony Tocco <ttocco AT colltech DOT com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > TSM users beware did you know even though TSM may have security settings.
> > You can run any command for UNIX as a scheduled event from the TSM admin
> > console and it will run on the UNIX server.  This is a huge security risk
> > and many fail to realize that.  This is because the TSM admin console uses
> > Root access.
> >
> > Tony Tocco
> >
> > ttocco AT colltech DOT com

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