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Re: [BackupPC-users] [newb] ssh rsync with restricted permissions

2011-03-18 08:00:17
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] [newb] ssh rsync with restricted permissions
From: Neal Becker <ndbecker2 AT gmail DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:57:27 -0400
Neal Becker wrote:

> I'm interested in setting up linux->linux backup.  I don't like the idea of
> giving permission for machine1 as user backup to ssh to machine2 as root. 
> What are the options?
> 
> 1. Can ssh be restricted so that the only command user backup can run is
> rsync? 2. Is there an easy way (using acls?) to give a user backup read access
> to everything (probably not)
> 3. Some other options I haven't thought of?
> 
> 

Maybe I can use the command=rsync option to the client's authorized_keys file?


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