On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 12:14:08PM +0200, Wojciech Jedliczka wrote: > > I always RTFM many times. > Inside all docs files in amanda distribution is no place > giving suggestion about .amandahosts permissions. > Amandahosts file is used for authorization and therefore > it is important who owns these file and who has access > to read and write. > From the security point of view is better to has 600 > than 660 but both are acceptable for me.
In this case the guidelines are based on the BSD authentication scheme using the .rhosts file as a model. Remberance of either usage or past documentation would make me say 600 is the proper permissions as the programs specifically ignored a file even readable by group or other. However I don't see that on the manpage for rhosts on my system now. A similar file, .netrc does have those requirements (listed on the manpage too) but that has nothing to do with amanda. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
