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

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