Take the tour ×  I have a simple Time Machine Server
configuration with 1 destination. Users are defined in Open
Directory (but the machines that will be backing up to TMS do
not login via Open Directory).  Updated info: Each user has
their own machine and are administrators on their own machine.
They will log into the Time Machine Server using their own Open
Directory username and password. Encryption of TM backups will
not be used.  Given this configuration, are backups secured per
user when using Time Machine Server on OS X Server (Mountain
Lion)?  share|improve this question add comment  1 Answer  up
vote 3 down vote accepted  It depends on what you mean by "per
user". There are two layers of security for the backup, based on
different users (plus a third layer if you enable encryption of
the backup). When you configure a client to back up to a server
with Time Machine, you authenticate to the server with a name
and password. That client's backup is stored as a disk image on
the server with the file permi