[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to manage a send over ssh

[Peter Tribble]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:19 PM, jason matthews <jason at broken.net> wrote:

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> On 3/23/17 2:56 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote:
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>> The main advantage with this way is that you don't leave root ssh exposed
>> for people to try to break into, and the special user for receiving can't
>> get higher privileges for anything other than "zfs".
>>
>
> With the notable exception that your unprivileged user can destroy your
> file systems :)
>

Which is why I logged this bug:

https://www.illumos.org/issues/5989

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