Remote dumps as root (was Re: Why does "root" worn everything?)

[Paul Czarnecki]

In article <9318 at sunybcs.UUCP> kensmith at sunybcs.UUCP (Ken Smith) writes:
> It's too bad rdump uses a privileged socket, it'd be
> nice to be able to remote dump workstations from a non-root account.  

I asked Sun what to do about this.  (Isn't software support wonderful)
They just told me to make /etc/dump setuid root, setgid operator.
None of my backups are done by someone logging in as root.

Was this stupid?

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