From 8a85412ec741bd0ceaab8c2ae1e0c9a7433ac1ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hjp Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:24:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] simba_* users need to be privileged. --- doc/install.txt | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/install.txt b/doc/install.txt index d6dbbc0..5826898 100644 --- a/doc/install.txt +++ b/doc/install.txt @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ On the host where you want to keep the backups. (the ./Build test step should be skipped for now - it works only if the DB has been initialized and when running as root) -2) create a user simba_ca. +2) create a user simba_ca with uid 0 (the user needs at least the +CAP_CHOWN, CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE, CAP_FOWNER capabilities). 3) create a mysql database, initialize it using schema.mysql and store the dbi connection string, username and password in ~simba_ca/.dbi/simba @@ -24,7 +25,8 @@ For each host you want to backup: 6) Install the software as in 1). -7) create a user simba_da. +7) create a user simba_da with uid 0 (the user needs at least the +CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE capability). 8) Add the public key created in 4) to ~simba_da/.ssh/authorized_keys (you may want to restrict access to the command /usr/local/bin/da)