On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 22:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > amanda cannot do an suid root if it was built as root, no way around > it due to the failure of the suid command if its already owned by > root.
Certainly, but I don't think the Debian packages were built as root. I just choose to run amdump as root so that I can get into ACL protected directories that I can't touch the permissions on.