Re: Compile time enhancement: make the amanda user directory owned by the amanda user

2010-10-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: It might be nice if the installation process not only made the directory but changed its ownership to the amanda user. The only reason that Amanda references its home directory is for .amandahosts, which is

Re: Compile time enhancement: make the amanda user directory owned by the amanda user

2010-10-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 13:09:38 -0600 Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: Currently, when you run 'make install', amanda may or may not make the user directory for the amanda user. The default is /var/backups, which already exists on debian systems. It might be nice if the

Re: Compile time enhancement: make the amanda user directory owned by the amanda user

2010-10-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:52:11 -0500 Dustin J. Mitchell dus...@zmanda.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: It might be nice if the installation process not only made the directory but changed its ownership to the amanda user. The

Re: Compile time enhancement: make the amanda user directory owned by the amanda user

2010-10-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: Understandable. Yes, useradd should set it up correctly. However, on debian and Ubuntu, the default user directory, /var/backups, is already created by the time you run make install, and so is the backup user.