I recently assisted our Veritas resellar technician setup Netbackup on a pair of filers that I installed; the Sun Workstation served as the filers admin host as well as the NDMP "server/controller"; in addition to having the hosts.equiv entry which the filer admin host is in by default, she ran an authentication script like: "set_auth_ndmp toaster root" which then prompts for the filers password...sooooo, I would assume someone at some point in time set the authorization on your unix machine..

-----Original Message----- From: Sean Hinchey [mailto:skh@nortelnetworks.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 11:38 AM To: 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: NDMP and Security

We have a UNIX machine running Netbackup. It is initiating backups to locally attached tapes drives on our filer. Can anyone explain how the filer knows it's supposed to allow the UNIX host to initiate backups? I would assume the machine/userid pair would need to be in the hosts.equiv before this would work. However, backups are working without this entry. How does security work with NDMP?

-Sean