Grant access right of ufsdump to user

[annli]

Hi all,

I would like to know how I could grant access right of ufsdump to user for dumping files to tape. Could anyone help? Thanks.

 

[chenn]

You can use sudo or another suid-root wrapper. Search the binaries in your favorite search engine. Install it.
with `/usr/local/bin/visudo` you can modify your sudoers file, located in /etc/sudoers.
A line for user X would be somthing like
X ALL=<name_of_prog_to_run> ALL
if your special user is fully trusted and you care about security policies you might allow him everything what root can by typing
X ALL=(root) ALL
now he can execute everything as root. (bad idea!)
your user X starts a sudo-command via `sudo command` and is prompted for his password.

Thats a quick primer - hope it'll help you! regards
chenn

 

[jad]

umm ... you can use ufsdump as any user, just not dump files that that user can't normally access ...

if a user needs to dump more than this, surely they either need access to the file system, or they ask admin ?

if they can't access the file system, what is the point in letting them back it up?