Mitch Collinsworth schrieb: > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> IIRC amcheck does NOT run some of its checks as root. >> Thus if the amanda user running amcheck can not visit >> /mnt/data06/Deforest3 and needed directories below that, >> it could cause errors like that above when amcheck looked >> for files. > > It's worse than that. Include processing is performed before setuid > root mode is started. selfcheck, sendsize, and sendbackup all fail > to include directories that the amanda user can't read. You just > lose and the directories don't get backed up. Makes it hard to > provide a backup service for machines that aren't centrally managed, > which is more and more the way the world (for some of us) is going.
Sounds BAD. I'd like to know more on that ... is this a major issue for Amanda in general ... do we have to do major patches ... what can we do ... Amanda 2.5.0 is near and I would really prefer to get it out without major problems in its source code. Greetings, Stefan.
