What user should amanda run as when using tar as the dumping program ? I know that it should run as its own special user (usu. amanda) when using dump because then amanda can have full dump rights by making the user a member of the disk group which allows it to read the disks at a low level.
But I don't this applies to Gnu tar which doesn't accesss the raw disk, so do I have to use root as the amanda user when using Gnu tar so that the resultant tar files can have all necessary user information in them (and also so that the dupmping program can access all files, regardless of permissions) Kindest regards, Niall O Broin
