On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 14:41, Pete Poggione wrote: > I get an error trying to access /dev/sg2 as the Amanda user so I had to > set /sbin/mtx to run as suid root. That seemed to take care of that > issue (if anyone has a better idea let me know)
Pete, This is not wise-- with suid root, any non-privileged user on the system would be able to execute mtx. This is probably not what you want. It would be better to make the device read/writable by the group that the amanda user belongs to, such as "operator" or "backup". For example, on my Debian box, I have an HP changer as well, and the robot is on /dev/sg2 like yours. On Debian, amanda runs as user "backup" and group "backup" so I did: # chmod g+rw backup /dev/sg2 Now amanda has access to the robot without making mtx suid root. Normal users have no access to the device. HTH, Eric