But he's not giving them accounts on the target system. They aren't supposed to log onto it. He's just backing up their data to that machine. This is appropriate IT systems practice. It's imperative to create backups and keep them updated, and it's imperative to do so at a separate physical location so that a fire in your building doesn't trash all your client's data. Jack Mendez writes: > if you have that many users I'd suggest using LDAP or some directory > service for authentication so users and passwords are not an issue on a LAN. > At 05:10 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote: > >On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > >>Not exactly. rsync will do as you say, but only if those users also > >>exist on the target system. It cannot create new user accounts, and > >>shouldn't be able to, either. > > > >Right, which is what spauned the question, and why Jack's solution won't > >work. If you deal with 50-150 users, and if the backup target machine is > >not only used for this purpose (backing up this one machine, or one > >userspace of a single network), making all of those users, becomes a > >logistical nightmare, and difficult for other reasons. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
