Hi,

On 1/9/2007 10:52 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
> This issue came up on IRC yesterday.  The statement in question is at 
> http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Bacula_Security_Issues.html :
> 
> "The Clients (bacula-fd) must run as root to be able to access all 
> the system files."
> 
> Someone wanted to run FD as non-root. I replied that would be fine 
> provided the UID/GID has permission to access all the files you want 
> to backup.  I propose to replace the quoted sentence with:
> 
> "The Clients (bacula-fd) must run as whatever GID/UID is necessary to 
> access whatever files you wish to backup. In addition, if you wish to 
> restore over existing files, bacula-fd will require sufficient 
> permission to do that.  In most cases, this means root."
> 
> Comments?

Sounds correct.

Arno
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