[csw-maintainers] write access to tape devices

[Philip Brown]

Yes that's the typical way to go... however, keep in mind that group
sys also gives read access to RAM.
(ie /dev/(memory),  whatever itis )

so you arent being that much more "secure" by putting bacula in group sys.



On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I want to have the new bacula packages run as non-root while still
> allowing them to write to tape devices.  I've never used tape backup
> on solaris before...Can someone confirm that group membership in 'sys'
> is good enough to allow this?  Poking at a few of my systems seem to
> indicate that this fits with the /devices/ target of /dev/rmt/0, but
> I'd rather hear from someone with experience.
>
> Thanks
> -Ben
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