On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 09:54:53AM +0100, Thorsten Bremer wrote: > Moin Jon, > > > The difference is that the backup programs are likely to > > run unattended, or by an operator and the result is a collection > > or archive of all the files, possibly on tape. To get root > > privlege during backup, certain programs are "setuid'ed" to > > root. Thus they can, and should be run by the backup user > > despite needing root privlege for certain operations. > > Yes, I know that Amanda setuid'ed himself to run some tasks with > higher privileges. But why he didn't setuid also while restore short > before the chown?
It would give anyone who could run the restore, i.e. the amanda user, the ability to recover and/or replace any file on the system. That task is typically given only to root. > > > For a few months, until my game was discovered, my bill dropped > > to about $300/month. > > Yes, I know such playing with quota. In the beginning of my CS-studies > our quota-software could'nt count the quota when moving files to > another harddisk. So another student on a different disk installs a > directory for another one. And after that, you could get space only > limited by the space of the other disk(s) :-) Hadn't heard that one before. > But: Paying for disk-space as you? How long is this away? :-)) 30 years ago, when a single disk drive came in a cabinet the size of a washing machine. And just a little more recent that that, when I started doing some admin, I budgeted $10,000 for a 300 MB drive!! Times have changed! -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)