On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 at 8:56am, Ivan Petrovich wrote > Here's the problem: > I mounted a remote file system on a GNU/Linux system using autofs, and > amdump fails to back up some files on this file system due to > "Permission denied." I verified that the files which give this error > are those that have the 'read' permission bit turned off for 'others'.
*snip* > So my questions are: > 1. How exactly does Amanda's client get read access to all files that > it dumps when it uses 'gtar'? When using tar, amanda executes it via the setuid root 'runtar' script. So, tar is run as root. > 2. Does any one know why it couldn't read all files on an auto-mounted > file system? At a guess, the default NFS export option (at least on Linux) is to map root (from clients) to nobody (on the server). I'd guess that that is what's going on. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
