Hi, 09.09.2007 22:32,, Hydro Meteor wrote:: > As a followup to this message, I retraced my notes with regard to the > configuration options that I passed to ./configure and was reminded that > I had explicitly set the user and groups to the appropriate non-root > user and non-root group on my system: > > --with-dir-user=admini > > --with-dir-group=staff > > --with-sd-user=admini > > --with-sd-group=staff > > --with-fd-user=admini > > --with-fd-group=staff > > I believe this has solved the problem ( e.g., I still need to start the > bacula start script as the root user but then I noticed the PIDs were > running correctly with the user admini).
That's as it should be. > There has been other references in the documentation such that the file > daemon really needs to run as the root user so I'm wondering if I will > get myself into trouble having configured with the configure options for > the file daemon also specifying the non-root-user and non-root group? Probably, yes. The FD needs permissions to access all the files you want to back up. As long as the file set you use is restricted to files accessible by admini:staff, that's ok. Once you try to store system configuration data or the OS files, or even regular user data, you'll probably find that the FD needs more permissions. Usually, that's when you decide to run it as root :-) Arno > Thank you. > > On 9/9/07, *Hydro Meteor* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've installed Bacula 2.2.1 on an Apple Intel Xserve running Mac OS > X Server 10.4.10 > > I am in the process of moving through the Tutorial (Chapter 9 in the > User's Guide) -- I have not touched / edited / modify the default > configuration files. This is a fresh install! > > I had hoped to be able to (per Chapter 9), run all of the Bacula > daemons as a non-root user (on my system named admini). The non-root > user (admini) has a different group (gid) than the root user, the > group named "staff". > > When running the bacula script which starts all of the daemons, I'm > receiving the following error regarding initgroups. I'm trying to > track this down: > > admini$ ./bacula start > > Starting the Bacula Storage daemon > 09-Sep 19:44 xserve-sd: ERROR TERMINATION at bsys.c:698 > Could not initgroups for group=staff, userid=admini: > ERR=Operation not permitted > > Starting the Bacula File daemon > 09-Sep 19:44 xserve-fd: ERROR TERMINATION at bsys.c:698 > Could not initgroups for group=staff, userid=admini: > ERR=Operation not permitted > > Starting the Bacula Director daemon > 09-Sep 19:44 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at bsys.c:698 > Could not initgroups for group=staff, userid=admini: > ERR=Operation not permitted > > > I'll continue to try and track this down to find out what I need to > change on my systems such as privileges of Bacula configuration > files and/or executable files and directories (so that a user with a > primary group that is not the same as a root user's primary group) > may run the daemons. Granted once I'm into production mode, the file > daemon will indeed by run as the root user from what I've grokked of > the Bacula documentation. > > In the mean time, if anyone has run into this problem before and has > any suggestions, I'd be appreciative (I did a search on the mailing > list archives for the past year on "initgroups" and virtually > nothing showed up). > > Thank you, > > -H > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
