On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 at 5:08pm, Gene Heskett wrote > On Monday 14 October 2002 11:38, Anthony Valentine wrote: > >Would it look in /home/backup if Amanda were compiled with > > 'backup' as the amanda user? > > It sure would, but thats not how we are instructed to build amanda. > Amanda should be configured and built as user amanda, and amanda > (the user) should be made a member of the group backup or disk.
Actually (sorry Gene) the name of the amanda user is really irrelevant, and there's no issues with it being the same as the group. So having amanda run as backup:backup is fine. > Amanda should be installed from user root, but thats the only time > non-amanda permissions are required. Running as user amanda, she > will do her own suid root when she needs to. Yep. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
