> From: Robert Siemer <Robert.Siemer@xxxxxx>
> [...]
> But how do you protect tape users from other users accessing their
> tape during backup (... or just before)?
>
>
> Regards,
> Robert
What about using flock on the tape devices? Wouldn't this work?
On the other hand, if the tapes belong to their users, then the device
should be assigned to the proper owner as soon as a tape is
(physically) mounted on it. I don't know any mechanism in unix to do
that other than "chown $USER $TAPEDEVICE" before mounting the tape.
The question is: How do you assign a tape device to a user?
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