Permissions Management

Although any user can view the server's resources from a client machine, only users you specify in the Administrator attribute in the Server resource can add to or change the configuration of the Backup server. When you first install Backup, root@server-name is the only user authorized to change the Backup configuration. To add other user IDs or machine names to the list of administrators, you must become root on the Backup server and add the other user IDs to the Administrator attribute in the Server resource.

Valid entries in the Administrator attribute include:

• user@hostname

• *@hostname

• user@*

If you use the nsradmin interface to input these entries, you must separate them by commas.

You can also add or restrict user privileges for individual clients. For more details, see "How to Allow Other Clients Remote Access Rights ".

When you add a user to the Administrator attribute in Backup, that person has Backup administration privileges for only that Backup server. Users in the Backup Administrator list do not automatically have root privileges on the Backup server or other machines in the network. A Backup administrator can change attributes for clients and other resources of the Backup server. Backup administrators have no special rights to client data for either backup or recovery.