You are actually supposed to run amrecover as root...which makes sense 
being that would be the account that would be doing a restore or a 
recover typically.

Don

Tom Van de Wiele wrote:

>Hello list
>
>I have a backupserver with two partitions on it that need to be backup'd
>+ 2 clients.
>
>I have a .amandahosts in the amanda user's $HOME.  It has this in it:
>
>[cut]
>hostname.eduline.be    amanda
>[/cut]
>
>To make backups, this works fine.  But when I want to amrecover files, I
>get that amanda authhosts failed.  When I change the user to "root"
>instead of "amanda", then amrecover works.  Is there a more sudle way
>then to always change that user in that file?
>
>(BTW, I applied the stream_client patch, recompiled and amrecover works)
>
>Kind regards
>
>-- Tom
>
>
>


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