Re: groups when using tar

[John R. Jackson]

>I'm familiar with the amanda user needing to be in the group
>allowed to read raw devices when using 'dump'.  Is this also
>suffient when using 'tar' or do the file and directory permissions
>prevail?

Amanda runs tar underneath a setuid-root wrapper program, so it doesn't
need any special permission setup.

>Paul Yeatman

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]