I should probably also say that I'm re-building amanda 2.4.2p2
on IRIX 6.5.x (usually 6.5.7m and up, currently installing
6.5.12m on some systems).
>
> Hello Amanda Group,
>
> I'm trying to tighten security and build amanda as a non-root user.
>
> On our Sun systems use used --with-user=bin --with-group-sys
> and had hoped to do the same for our IRIX clients and servers.
> (on Irix we are also using --disable-libtool which may no longer
> be needed ? ).
>
> The configure, make, make install all run successfully but running
> the daemon as bin is a problem, system tells me "no shell" which
> I guess makes sense as the shell in /etc/passwd is /dev/null.
>
> Wondering what is the "correct" solution, choose a different non-root
> user on SGI ? Run as Root on SGI. Ok to change the shell for bin ?
>
> Please let me know what your experiences are.
>
> thanks,
>
> Brian
>
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