Console.rst

Console Configuration

\ <single: Configuration; Console> \ <single: Console Configuration>

The Console configuration file is the simplest of all the configuration files, and in general, you should not need to change it except for the password. It simply contains the information necessary to contact the Director or Directors.

For a general discussion of the syntax of configuration files and their resources including the data types recognized by Bareos, please see the Configuration <ConfigureChapter> chapter of this manual.

The following Console Resource definition must be defined:

Director Resource

\ <single: Director Resource> \ <single: Resource; Director>

The Director resource defines the attributes of the Director running on the network. You may have multiple Director resource specifications in a single Console configuration file. If you have more than one, you will be prompted to choose one when you start the Console program.

An actual example might be:

Director {
  Name = HeadMan
  address = rufus.cats.com
  password = xyz1erploit
}

Console Resource

\ <single: Console Resource> \ <single: Resource; Console>

There are three different kinds of consoles, which the administrator or user can use to interact with the Director. These three kinds of consoles comprise three different security levels.

• The first console type is an admin or anonymous or default console, which has full privileges. There is no console resource necessary for this type since the password is specified in the Director resource. Typically you would use this console only for administrators.

• The second type of console is a "named" or "restricted" console defined within a Console resource in both the Director’s configuration file and in the Console’s configuration file. Both the names and the passwords in these two entries must match much as is the case for Client programs.

  This second type of console begins with absolutely no privileges except those explicitly specified in the Director’s Console resource. Note, the definition of what these restricted consoles can do is determined by the Director’s conf file.

  Thus you may define within the Director’s conf file multiple Consoles with different names and passwords, sort of like multiple users, each with different privileges. As a default, these consoles can do absolutely nothing – no commands what so ever. You give them privileges or rather access to commands and resources by specifying access control lists in the Director’s Console resource. This gives the administrator fine grained control over what particular consoles (or users) can do.

• The third type of console is similar to the above mentioned restricted console in that it requires a Console resource definition in both the Director and the Console. In addition, if the console name, provided on the Name = directive, is the same as a Client name, the user of that console is permitted to use the SetIP command to change the Address directive in the Director’s client resource to the IP address of the Console. This permits portables or other machines using DHCP (non-fixed IP addresses) to "notify" the Director of their current IP address.

The Console resource is optional and need not be specified. However, if it is specified, you can use ACLs (Access Control Lists) in the Director’s configuration file to restrict the particular console (or user) to see only information pertaining to his jobs or client machine.

You may specify as many Console resources in the console’s conf file. If you do so, generally the first Console resource will be used. However, if you have multiple Director resources (i.e. you want to connect to different directors), you can bind one of your Console resources to a particular Director resource, and thus when you choose a particular Director, the appropriate Console configuration resource will be used. See the "Director" directive in the Console resource described below for more information.

Note, the Console resource is optional, but can be useful for restricted consoles as noted above.

Example Console Configuration File

\ <single: Configuration; bconsole>

A Console configuration file might look like this:

Director {
  Name = "bareos.example.com-dir"
  address = "bareos.example.com"
  Password = "PASSWORD"
}

With this configuration, the console program (e.g. bconsole) will try to connect to a named bareos.example.com-dir at the network address bareos.example.com and authenticate to the admin console using the password PASSWORD.

Using Named Consoles

The following configuration files were supplied by Phil Stracchino.

To use named consoles from bconsole, use a bconsole.conf configuration file like this:

Director {
   Name = bareos-dir
   Address = myserver
   Password = "XXXXXXXXXXX"
}

Console {
   Name = restricted-user
   Password = "RUPASSWORD"
}

Where the Password in the Director section is deliberately incorrect and the Console resource is given a name, in this case restricted-user. Then in the Director configuration (not directly accessible by the user), we define:

Console {
  Name = restricted-user
  Password = "RUPASSWORD"
  JobACL = "Restricted Client Save"
  ClientACL = restricted-client
  StorageACL = main-storage
  ScheduleACL = *all*
  PoolACL = *all*
  FileSetACL = "Restricted Client's FileSet"
  CatalogACL = MyCatalog
  CommandACL = run
}

The user login into the Director from his Console will get logged in as :configDir/Console = restricted-user and he will only be able to see or access a Job with the name :configDir/Job = Restricted Client Save, a Client with the name :configDir/Client = restricted-client, a storage device :configDir/Storage = main-storage, any Schedule or Pool, a FileSet named :configDir/FileSet = Restricted Client's FileSet, a Catalog named :configDir/Catalog = MyCatalog and the only command he can use in the Console is the run command. In other words, this user is rather limited in what he can see and do with Bareos. For details how to configure ACLs, see the Acl data type description.

The following is an example of a bconsole.conf file that can access several Directors and has different Consoles depending on the Director:

Director {
   Name = bareos-dir
   Address = myserver
   Password = "XXXXXXXXXXX"    # no, really.  this is not obfuscation.
}

Director {
   Name = SecondDirector
   Address = secondserver
   Password = "XXXXXXXXXXX"    # no, really.  this is not obfuscation.
}

Console {
   Name = restricted-user
   Password = "RUPASSWORD"
   Director = MyDirector
}

Console {
   Name = restricted-user2
   Password = "OTHERPASSWORD"
   Director = SecondDirector
}

The second Director referenced at :configDir/Director = secondserver might look like the following:

Console {
  Name = restricted-user2
  Password = "OTHERPASSWORD"
  JobACL = "Restricted Client Save"
  ClientACL = restricted-client
  StorageACL = second-storage
  ScheduleACL = *all*
  PoolACL = *all*
  FileSetACL = "Restricted Client's FileSet"
  CatalogACL = RestrictedCatalog
  CommandACL = run, restore
  WhereACL = "/"
}