Hi

This is my stupid question of the week ;-)
Sorry but my brain has deflated.
Please bear with me for when my newbie howto is finished I hope it will 
stop questions like this.

This is a direct quote from the INSTALL file

B.  Set up your raw disk devices so that the dumpuser can read
         them, and /etc/dumpdates so that the dumpuser can write to it.
         Normally this is done by making the disk devices readable by
         (and dumpdates read/writable by) group `operator', and putting
         the dumpuser into that group.

Now my problem:
Getting dumpuser to read the raw devices.
I see in Red-Hat the default group is disk
[root@backupserver docs]# ls -ahl /dev/hda
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   0 Apr 11 16:25 /dev/hda

I can't just put dumpuser into group disk as that wil give it full read 
write access.
I don't think it wil be a good idea to revoke write privelages from disk 
;-)and it will not be a good idea to change the group.So what now ?

This is what stumps me.

Tnx all

Mozzi

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