[OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup User for zfs send and receive

[Flo]

Hi,

I must confess, that I never used pfexec. If an user has that permission 
to use commands with pfexec, do I need to enter a password?

How can I give a user the permission ZFS File System
Management" without a GUI?

FLorian


On 09/03/2012 01:05 AM, Timothy Coalson wrote:
> We used different methods, the user profiles just tell pfexec what the user
> can run as root, you still need to call it with pfexec in order to run it
> as root.  His method gave some privileges to a particular user on a
> particular pool/filesystem, so that he didn't need root privileges to do
> the zfs receive (until comstar got involved, apparently).
>
> Tim
>
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Jan Owoc <jsowoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't actually know how this is supposed to work, but I noticed a
>> difference between what you two wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Florian <florian at acw.at> wrote:
>>>> I used this command:
>>>> zfs send -R tank/raid1-0 at 20120831-2017 | ssh backup at 192.168.10.201"/usr/sbin/zfs
>> receive -Fduv tank/backup_raid"
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Timothy Coalson <tsc5yc at mst.edu> wrote:
>>> [...] used "pfexec
>>> zfs receive ..." for the receive command.
>>
>>
>> I think that after you added the admin privileges to the user
>> "backup", you still need to call "zfs receive" using pfexec to
>> actually use these newly acquired privileges. Right?
>>
>> Jan
>>
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