On Wednesday 06 July 2005 11:31, Graeme Humphries wrote: >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.
I think this is going to be problematic, Graeme. But I'll defer to someone who is a bit more cognizant of the actual code. I do know that I cannot run either amcheck or amdump here as root, the exit, complaining about it, is instant or nearly so. -- 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) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
