Fernan Aguero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>[I've tried also building amanda --with-user=amanda and creating the >user to no avail] >The only thing that works is letting amanda have a login shell in >/etc/passwd, which I guess is the wrong thing to do (from a security >standpoint). Hi! It's possible to give Amanda a shell, but set the password in both /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd to '*'. In this case, the user _can't_ be used to login (no password encrypts to '*'). This means that the only way for anyone to use the user amanda is to su from root -- and if they have access to the root account, why do they need the amanda account anyways? HTH, Ricky
