Anyway to allow remote Tape access (for backup) without allowing rlogin
mcneill
mcneill at eplrx7.UUCP
Sat Jul 22 00:01:29 AEST 1989
We have an exabyte 8mm tape system on a sun 3/160. We use this machine to
backup all the machines in the building over night. Some of the machines
are not under my administative control. I want the untrusted hosts to be
able to use the tape drive but I don't want them to have rlogin access. My
backup script (running on the tape server) does something like this:
rsh notmine "dump 0uf tapeserver:/dev/nrst9"
This uses rmt which uses /etc/hosts.equiv & /.rhosts for access (which is
what rlogin & rsh use). Is there another way to allow tape access without
allowing rlogin access?
Keith
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(302) 695-9353/7395 | P.O. Box 80357
| Wilmington, Delaware 19880-0357
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