Re: Running amanda as non-root on SGI

[Olivier Nicole]

T>he 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.

Amanda uses a bunch of shell scripts.

Do create a plain lambda user, not bin, not sys, not root, just a new
user call it amanda, group amanda. And that's it.

make install that is run as root will set-up the proper suid bits on
what is needed.

Olivier