On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Natalia Garc�a Nebot wrote: > Hi! I have one doubt. Amanda use gnu-tar to backup subdirectories and amanda > can access to all files and directories in disklist file not being the owner. > But gnu-tar hasn't suid bit activated.... then, How can amanda access them? > which internal mechanism use amanda?
Through the setuid wrapper runtar: | $ ls -l /usr/lib/amanda/runtar | -rwsr-xr-- 1 root backup 5196 May 26 07:09 /usr/lib/amanda/runtar* | $ Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds