Re: Amanda README Draft; Request for comments

2009-12-08 Thread Chad Kotil
I understand that I am running the lto3 on the slow side and it could damage my tapes , and possibly the drive. Since I can write at 55mb a sec when no reads are occuring I should be able to tweak my config to only write to tape when I have a full holding disk. But I haven't been able to

Re: I accidentally ran chown and need help

2008-12-03 Thread Chad Kotil
Here are my permissions. Notice all the files owned by root have the setUID permission set. [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda]$ ls -alrth total 1.5M -rw-r--r-- 1 amandabackup disk 956 Jun 25 18:11 amanda-sh-lib.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 amandabackup disk 48K Jun 25 18:11 amandad drwxr-xr-x 3 root root

Re: Encrypting backups

2008-07-25 Thread Chad Kotil
For a while I was successfully running an encryption scheme on all my local hosts including two solaris 9 hosts. I followed the instructions on the wiki. I used the open ssl encrption scheme /usr/sbin/amcrypt-ossl w/ the aes-256-cbc cipher. I settled on this type of encryption because at

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-07-01 Thread Chad Kotil
the keytab. It doesnt seem to be doing that. Also, What keytab on the client needs to be read as root? --Chad On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: xinetd must be configured to run amandad as root. Jean-Louis Chad Kotil wrote: I am trying to setup krb5 auth on amanda 2.6.0p1. I

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-07-01 Thread Chad Kotil
names. Can you explain why you want to auth against the secondary rather than the primary? I can't think of any reason that should matter. -Mitch On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Chad Kotil wrote: Heres an update to the kerberos realm issue I am now seeing. I want to use my secondary KDC (UVWX.YZ.EDU

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-26 Thread Chad Kotil
, What keytab on the client needs to be read as root? --Chad On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: xinetd must be configured to run amandad as root. Jean-Louis Chad Kotil wrote: I am trying to setup krb5 auth on amanda 2.6.0p1. I built the server and client --with-krb5

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-26 Thread Chad Kotil
amandad.c.rej I recompiled anyway and i get the same error. --Chad On Jun 26, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Chad, I don't have a krb5 setup and the developers sometimes break it. amandad relinquish root permissions too soon. Can you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis Chad Kotil

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-26 Thread Chad Kotil
)); } } 444,448d424 /* krb5 require the euid to be 0 */ if (strcasecmp(auth, krb5) == 0) { seteuid((uid_t)0); } --Chad On Jun 26, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Chad Kotil wrote: Im using the source version 2.6.0p1 Here are the results of the patch. [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandad-src]# patch

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-26 Thread Chad Kotil
seem to be doing that. Also, What keytab on the client needs to be read as root? --Chad On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: xinetd must be configured to run amandad as root. Jean-Louis Chad Kotil wrote: I am trying to setup krb5 auth on amanda 2.6.0p1. I built the server

krb5 auth problem

2008-06-25 Thread Chad Kotil
I am trying to setup krb5 auth on amanda 2.6.0p1. I built the server and client --with-krb5-security, added a new principal to my KDC ([EMAIL PROTECTED] REALM), and wrote a keytab file and placed it on the server. It is locked down so only amandabackup (the user that runs amanda) can read

Windows Server 2003 cant execute amandad.exe via inetd

2008-05-07 Thread Chad Kotil
I got it working. I chose to use xinetd rather than inetd, and ran everything under the same user, amandabackup. Rather than using the uer sshd_server to run xinetd. Which is what caused the problems. Thanks, Chad E. Kotil Global Research NOC

Windows Server 2003 cant execute amandad.exe via inetd

2008-05-01 Thread Chad Kotil
I've hit a brick wall in getting the amanda client 2.6.0 to work on windows server 2003. I used the .msi package available on zmanda.com, I can start inetd just fine, and xinetd too. But both of them fail to exectue amandad.exe. Here is the error that appears in the Windows Application