Mike Loseke's Journal Recent Entries

The last real trade show I attended was CeBIT in the early 90's when the excitement was still about Netware 4.0 about to be released. It's been a while... No longer working in a pure IT environment, and it being even longer since working in academia, SAGE/LISA seemed a little too focused for the sysadmin line of work as I'm currently practicing it. OSCON seemed to really fit the bill this year, and I think it was a good first conference of this sort for me to attend. Read on for some highlights.

Having been running BackupPC for the last several months, we wanted to hand off some of the periodic auditing that we do to a non-admin user. BackupPC allows for host-specific users that have full access to a specific host or hosts but there's currently no facility to allow for a user who can see data on each host in a read-only fashion. Read on for how we implemented this interface.