On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 at 1:52am, Niall O Broin wrote > 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)
Amanda runs tar via the setuid root 'runtar' program. So, no, you don't need to configure amanda --with-user=root (and you probably shouldn't). I'd still go with a user with read access to the raw devices, though, in case you decide to use dump at some point in the future. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
