On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:52:11 -0500 "Dustin J. Mitchell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Charles Curley > <[email protected]> wrote: > > It might be nice if the installation process not only made the > > directory but changed its ownership to the amanda user. > > The only reason that Amanda references its home directory is for > .amandahosts, which is modeled on .rhosts (and you've all disabled > rhosts and telnet, right?), and for encryption keys (where gpg tends > to use $HOME unless instructed otherwise). I consider both an > unfortunate legacy. > > So I'm loathe to tread on territory that should belong to the system > itself. That directory should be created and populated by useradd or > whatever utility you use to create the necessary user account. Understandable. Yes, useradd should set it up correctly. However, on debian and Ubuntu, the default user directory, /var/backups, is already created by the time you run make install, and so is the backup user. And debian uses that directory for something else. For a workaround, I added a note to http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Quick_start#Create_an_Amanda_user_on_the_server -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
