Re: amfetchdump: running as user "root" instead of "amanda" ??

[Jean-Louis Martineau]

Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
Running amanda-2.6.0p2 an attempting to restore a run:
# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
# amfetchdump -p -d tape:/dev/nst0 conf1 gustav | tar -xpGf -
amfetchdump: running as user "root" instead of "amanda"

ugh?
jf
  
amfetchdump must be able to access the amanda log and index. Only the 
'amanda' user can do it.

su amanda -c "amfetchdump -p -d tape:/dev/nst0 conf1 gustav" | tar -xpGf -

Jean-Louis