Re: superuser authentication?

Bill Moran wrote:
>
> Personally, I'd set auth to password, then keep the password in a file in
> root's home directory and set it readable by root only. If an attacker can
> read that file, he already doesn't need to.
>
> This does mean that you'll have to carefully secure the script you use to
> make backups, since they'll need to have the password in them. But you'll
> need to carefully secure your backups anyway or all the other security is
> rather pointless.

I'd run it as a non-root backup-specific user. That way if someone
compromises the backup process they're limited in the amount of damage
they can do (since the user will only have write access to a few
directories). Also makes auditing easier if you're that way inclined.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd