On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 12:51:45PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 18:35:39 +0000 > Jose M Calhariz <jose.calha...@tecnico.ulisboa.pt> wrote: > > > I am reviewing the patches used by Debian to build amanda 3.3.9 and > > updating them for amanda 3.4.1. I think some of them are not specific > > to Debian. My plan is to present the patches here so they can be > > reviewed for adoption or not. > > Thank you, thank you. > > May I request you end two irritants about the Debian version. It creates > a user, "backup". That's fine, although "amanda", say, would avoid > stepping on some other user named "backup". > > The irritant is that debian makes the user's home > directory /var/backups. Something else uses that directory, and I don't > like co-mingling the two different functions.
??? Can you explain better? > It also sets the user > shell to "/usr/sbin/nologin" rather than to bash, which is an irritant > on the way to using amanda over ssh. > I will try to search the archives for the reasoning of the decisions. Kind regards Jose M Calhariz -- -- Erro de usuário: Troque o usuário e pressione qualquer tecla para continuar.
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