On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:59:38AM +0200, Creator wrote:
> 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.

It could be done easily, add a dumptype entry 'restore_host' which list
the hostname (or ip) that can restore the DLE. The amindexd an amidxtaped
daemon will have to check the connecting host with the host listed
in restore_host for this DLE.

Jean-Louis
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