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2013 Sep 23
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Howto: Extremely tight security rsync shell for backups
...e webserver/backup account so that it cannot do
anything other than a read-only rsync.
3) Limit access to the backup account to a specific IP address, EG: only
the backup server
can access the account.
# ON WEBSERVER (note: normal account!)
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[root] # adduser backupaccount;
# ON WEBSERVER
in /home/backupaccount/.ssh/authorized_keys ("backupserver" must be the
remote, publicly visible IP address of the backup server)
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from="backupserver" ssh-dss AAAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAACBAKLv/SNIP/
root at backupserver
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