John R. Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

>>... Although strictly, it says"running as user "tape" instead of
>>"root"." If it means "you ran amcheck as "tape" but "dumpuser" in
>>amanda.conf is  set to "root"," why not say that?  ...

> You've got the source.  Be my guest :-).

I'll put it on my to-do list :-)


> The whole "what user is used where" issue in Amanda needs a complete
> top to bottom review and cleanup.  I agree it is very confusing.

>>Ah... It appears not to have been. At least there's no USE_AMANDAHOSTS
>>in the /tmp/amanda/amandad.debug.

> Well, that would explain a lot :-).


Just to follow up, I rebuilt the client using the latest stable source
and (therefore) amandahosts authentication. This has fixed the
authentication problem.

Thanks for seeing the obvious,


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Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group

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