On 13 Jun 2002 at 11:39am, Mohamed Lrhazi wrote > I compiled and installed amanda-2.4.3b3 on solaris 8 and run a couple > of tests to get a simple config to work. I need to keep a regular back > up of a couple of filesystems on an nfs mounted filesystem. > > Although I configured with : --with-user=amnda2 --with-group=sys on both > the client and the server, when run : su amanda2 -c "amdump normal" from > the server machine, I see tar running on the client as user root, then > gzip runs as user amanda2... any idea why? why doesnt tar run as > amanda2 too?
Amanda runs tar via the setuid root runtar wrapper to get access to all files in a disklist entry. This is meant to be analagous to running dump (ufsdump on solaris), which accesses the raw disk devices (and thus needs permission to do this). Is there a reason this behavior is causing you problems? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
