On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 08:18:43AM -0600, Fran Fabrizio enlightened us: > I'm having an odd problem with runtar on one of my linux clients. Here > is the ls -l entry for it. I'm -positive- that the 'amanda' user is in > the 'amanda' group. > > -rwsr-x--- 1 root amanda 13035 Nov 28 08:14 runtar > > When I run amcheck, I get > > [can not execute /usr/local/libexec/runtar: Permission denied] > > for this client. However, if I "su - amanda" and then type > /usr/local/libexec/runtar, I get the usage message so I can run the > script fine as amanda. The only way I can make amcheck happy is if I > "chmod o+x runtar". Once I do that, everything works fine, but I should > not have to do that. > > /usr/local/libexec is on a local partition, not NFS. > > Any ideas? >
Is the amanda user's primary group amanda? If you are using xinetd, you might have to set "groups = yes" to make sure secondary groups are used. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
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