Re: Patches used by Debian on amanda -- "backup" user under Debian

2017-01-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 14:21:00 -0500 Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 12:51:45 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > May I request you end two irritants about the Debian version. It > > creates a user, "backup". That's fine, although "amanda", say, > > would

Re: Patches used by Debian on amanda -- "backup" user under Debian

2017-01-09 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve, The amanda-client can be run with any user. The user is compiled in, but it doesn't need to be the same on the amanda server and amanda-client. What was the problem? Jean-Louis On 09/01/17 02:41 PM, Steve Wray wrote: For what its worth, this creates problems with inter-operability

Re: Patches used by Debian on amanda -- "backup" user under Debian

2017-01-09 Thread Steve Wray
For what its worth, this creates problems with inter-operability between CentOS and Debian; we rebuilt the CentOS rpm for amanda client so it used the backup user instead of amanda, as our amanda server was on Debian. We tried hard but never found a way to configure this. It would be nice to be

Re: Patches used by Debian on amanda -- "backup" user under Debian

2017-01-09 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 12:51:45 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > May I request you end two irritants about the Debian version. It creates > a user, "backup". That's fine, although "amanda", say, would avoid > stepping on some other user named "backup". > > The irritant is that debian makes the