On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, but todays 3156 just fell over, same perms problem.
Right, I haven't fixed it yet. > Are you sure you want to change how that works? Yes - chowning everything to amanda is actually *less* secure (since it means that someone who compromises the Amanda account could modify those executables) > But it would be great if something can be made to work under an rpm or dpkg > install without throwing the baby out with the bathwater because rpm (don't > know about the deb scene) can't do the ownership and suid bits needed. I don't know about that - Amanda's been successfully packaged in RPMs for a while now. If you'd like to start up another thread on that topic, that'd be fine. Or put the distro maintainers in touch with Dan Locks. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
