Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Sven Aluoor aluoor@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:27 PM, mcclnx mcc mcclnx@yahoo.com.tw wrote:
We have several LINUX servers with Backup Exec 12.5 client on it. Based on Backup administrator told us when configure backup EXEC client he need "root" password. Also we can NOT change "root" password after configure otherwise backup will failed.
Does there has way I can create a account with special group assign to it for Backup EXEC to use?
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Your Backup Exec configuration advisor needs an education in the use of "sudo" or restricted SSH keys to provide restricted access to the necessary commands for Backup Exec. And he most *certainly* does not need a "root password". Sudo or SSH key based access should be plenty, so that you can revoke it relatively safely as needed.
<snip> Yeah, that's probably your best bet. You can add entries to sudo - maybe create an admin, or backup, account, who can can use sudo *only* to run the backup command.
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