Steve Atkins wrote:
So... you're not going to be able to do this _at_all_ from within the database. You're going to need an external solution, probably a hideous seteuid thing, if you really want to do this. And it's a really bad idea, so you probably don't want to.
Thinking out loud on this one, so feel free to shoot it full of holes folks. I'm also assuming a UNIX based system. I don't suggest this solution, but it might be closer to what you're looking for.
Create a root permission id that has the permissions to backup the database. Set the id's shell in /etc/passwd so that it executes a script that performs the backup. Again, I don't recommend this, but it might be a workable solution. Now, you login to the machine and the script is executed.
Personally, I still maintain that if you can't trust the person that is expected to backup your database, you should get rid of them.
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