Gene Heskett said: > > Why not? Its an excelent strategy to do so. First, if you have > intentions of installing it as root, that won't work. End of > discussion. > > So whats so hard about adding a user "amanda" to all systems, and > making amanda a member of group "disk"? Heck I build it from > tarballs as soon as Jean-Louis releases the next snapshot, and > because it just plain works, I've had no urge or reason to change > those although I do specify them in my configure script. > > That download, configure, build and install takes about 6 minutes > here. I'm not too sure installing the rpm would be that much faster. > Note that the RPMs from RedHat, at least for 6.2 and 7.3, use the operator user and disk group.
Josh
