On Thursday 15 August 2002 10:47, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:40:33PM +0100, janebackup wrote: >> Hi thanks for your email, I'm sorry to be a pain but could you >> tell me if I can just add the amanda user to my root group. If >> not what permission does the new disk group need? > >YMMV, this is my system. > >$ ls -lL /dev/dsk >total 0 > ... >brw-r----- 1 root sys 29,392 Jul 20 2001 c1t6d0s8 >brw-r----- 1 root sys 29,393 Jul 20 2001 c1t6d0s9 > ^ ^^^ > group read amanda must have this group permissions > >Seldom (in my experience) is the disk group the root group. > >Some systems allow only a single group membership at a time. >In that case amanda should login as part of the disk group (sys > for me). > >Other system allow multiple, simultaneous group membership. On > those, amanda needs be listed as a member of the disk group (sys > for me). > > >300 lines of email message for a 3 line question is overkill.
Agreed. I aso got a private copy of this, and I took her question to be 'could I make amanda a member of group root' which I said I suppose so since the group 'disk' has amanda and root as alternate members here on my machine according to linuxconf. Is this not correct, Jon? -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.11% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
