>I have an Amanda 2.4.2 client set to backup the /home of a FreeBSD client.
>When I run amcheck on the index server (Red Hat 6.2), it comes back saying
>'permission denied' to access the /home partition.
I assume what you mean is it said permission denied trying to access
something or other in /dev, right?
>The partition is owned by root.wheel, 755 perms ...
Again, I assume you mean the /dev for the partition? Any chance one of
the parent directories is blocking access?
>and dump is suid on the FreeBSD box. ...
Which is not relevant. It is only setuid because of the insanely stupid
way they (and most dump vendors) start the rmt protocol. It drops its
permissions right after startup, so has no more access than the calling
(Amanda) user.
>User amanda has been added to the wheel group.
So if you run something like this on the client:
su <amanda-user> -c "dump 9f - /home > /dev/null"
(whatever you dump program is called) does it work?
Is Amanda using dump or GNU tar?
Are you running xinetd on the client? Did you use "groups yes" in the
amandad entry so xinetd gives the child all the alternate groups?
Did amcheck report the correct device that you think maps to /home?
In other words, is /etc/fstab (or whatever your system uses) correct?
If none of this helps, please post the exact messages from amcheck and
a "ls -lL" of the items it says have a permission problem.
>Shawn
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
