Granular sudo Permissions Required for Hardened Repository
Purpose
This article documents the granular sudo permissions required to allow Veeam Backup & Replication to deploy and manage a Hardened Repository.
Solution
- The Linux user account used by Veeam Backup & Replication to deploy and manage the Hardened Repository must use the bash shell.
- The Linux account used for a Hardened Repository must be a non-root account with root-equivalent permissions (sudo). Some administrators may prefer to restrict the account used by Veeam Backup & Replication to only be able to execute specific commands using sudo on the target Linux machine. (See example below.)
Example /etc/sudoers.d/veeamsvc file:
More Information
The following command can be used to validate the sudoers drop-in file:
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