Thanks todd. I wasn't aware anyone ran dump as anything other than root.

I noticed the problem when I couldn't do any dumps to remote files, unless I 
dumped to stdout and piped the output through ssh.

> On Apr 26, 2022, at 3:04 PM, Todd C. Miller <todd.mil...@sudo.ws> wrote:
> 
> On OpenBSD, rcmd(3) calls rcmdsh(3) under the hood unless the program
> is run as the superuser.  However, since we no longer even ship
> rshd(8) in OpenBSD it is probably best to avoid rcmd(3) entirely.
> 
> It looks like dump(8) is the only remaining user of rcmd(3) in the
> tree.
> 
> - todd

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