Bug#699149: bacula-fd: should not run as 'root' by default

2016-09-16 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
Control: tag -1 - wontfix Control: tag -1 + confirmed Control: retitle -1 Make running bacula-fd as non-root easier While the default will not be to run as non-root, it will likely become a debconf question, and so could be preseeded. And to correct my earlier statement - it is possible to

Bug#699149: bacula-fd: should not run as 'root' by default

2014-12-01 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:39:52 -0700, Teodor MICU wrote: The other Bacula services are started by 'bacula' user. Only bacula-fd is started as 'root'. However, I've just discovered that it can function properly with limited privileges too. I'm guessing you aren't doing full system backups?

Bug#699149: [pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#699149: Bug#699149: bacula-fd: should not run as 'root' by default

2013-01-31 Thread Alexander Golovko
В Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:19:13 +0200 Teodor MICU mteo...@gmail.com пишет: 2013/1/29 Alexander Golovko alexan...@ankalagon.ru: ARGS=-u bacula -g bacula -k I think that from a security perspective this should be the default on package installation. This will lead to impossibility to

Bug#699149: bacula-fd: should not run as 'root' by default

2013-01-31 Thread Teodor MICU
2013/1/31 Alexander Golovko alexan...@ankalagon.ru: You lose files owner/group and acl on restoring. That's not a big deal comparing with the increased security. /e/d/bacula-{dir,sd} has nonempty ARGS and bacula-{director,sd} will be incorrectly runned under root privileges if defaults file

Bug#699149: [pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#699149: bacula-fd: should not run as 'root' by default

2013-01-30 Thread Teodor MICU
2013/1/29 Alexander Golovko alexan...@ankalagon.ru: ARGS=-u bacula -g bacula -k I think that from a security perspective this should be the default on package installation. This will lead to impossibility to restore backups without restarting bacula-fd. This is also can require changing

Bug#699149: [pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#699149: bacula-fd: should not run as 'root' by default

2013-01-29 Thread Alexander Golovko
Severity: wishlist -- В Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:39:52 -0700 Teodor mteo...@gmail.com пишет: Package: bacula-fd Version: 5.2.6+dfsg-7 Severity: normal Hi, Hi! The other Bacula services are started by 'bacula' user. Only bacula-fd is started as 'root'. However, I've just discovered that it

Bug#699149: bacula-fd: should not run as 'root' by default

2013-01-28 Thread Teodor
Package: bacula-fd Version: 5.2.6+dfsg-7 Severity: normal Hi, The other Bacula services are started by 'bacula' user. Only bacula-fd is started as 'root'. However, I've just discovered that it can function properly with limited privileges too. For this one must edit /etc/default/bacula-df to