On Friday 21 January 2005 18:18, Eric Siegerman wrote: >On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:22:16PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> - configure and make as $AMANDAUSER > >I don't believe this is necessary. One should avoid building >Amanda as root, but that's not because it'll cause problems for >Amanda; it's for the same reason one should avoid building >*anything* as root. > This is correct, but maybe you wouldn't want the normal user to be a member of group disk? Thats the main reason I can see for a seperate user 'amanda' who is a member of group disk, or maybe backup.
Most users are not that priviledged, and should not be. And thats the main justification for a seperate user to run amanda. >I've never had a problem building Amanda under my own user >account, and it's hard to see why such a problem might ever >occur. > >> make install as root > >This *is* necessary, of course. > >-- > >| | /\ >| >|-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] >| >| | / > >The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so >many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to >represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus. > - Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum" -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
