Re: Amanda README Draft; Request for comments

2009-12-08 Thread Chad Kotil
I understand that I am running the lto3 on the slow side and it could damage my tapes , and possibly the drive. Since I can write at 55mb a sec when no reads are occuring I should be able to tweak my config to only write to tape when I have a full holding disk. But I haven't been able to do

Re: I "accidentally" ran chown and need help

2008-12-03 Thread Chad Kotil
Here are my permissions. Notice all the files owned by root have the setUID permission set. [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda]$ ls -alrth total 1.5M -rw-r--r-- 1 amandabackup disk 956 Jun 25 18:11 amanda-sh-lib.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 amandabackup disk 48K Jun 25 18:11 amandad drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4

Re: Encrypting backups

2008-07-25 Thread Chad Kotil
For a while I was successfully running an encryption scheme on all my local hosts including two solaris 9 hosts. I followed the instructions on the wiki. I used the open ssl encrption scheme /usr/sbin/amcrypt-ossl w/ the aes-256-cbc cipher. I settled on this type of encryption because at fi

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-07-01 Thread Chad Kotil
principal names. Can you explain why you want to auth against the secondary rather than the primary? I can't think of any reason that should matter. -Mitch On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Chad Kotil wrote: Heres an update to the kerberos realm issue I am now seeing. I want to use my secondary K

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-07-01 Thread Chad Kotil
ks, --Chad On Jun 26, 2008, at 9:37 PM, Chad Kotil wrote: Ian, Jean-Loiuis provided me with a patch that fixed this problem. The patch was posted to the list. I now face a new problem. I need to use my secondary kdc REALM to authenticate, and not my default realm. The keytab on the serve

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-26 Thread Chad Kotil
er reading the keytab. It doesnt seem to be doing that. Also, What keytab on the client needs to be read as root? --Chad On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: xinetd must be configured to run amandad as root. Jean-Louis Chad Kotil wrote: I am trying to setup krb5 auth on am

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-26 Thread Chad Kotil
strcasecmp(auth, "krb5") == 0) { < error(_("'krb5' auth require amandad to be run as root")); < } < } < 444,448d424 < /* krb5 require the euid to be 0 */ < if (strcasecmp(auth, "krb5") == 0) { < seteui

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-26 Thread Chad Kotil
amandad.c.rej I recompiled anyway and i get the same error. --Chad On Jun 26, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: Chad, I don't have a krb5 setup and the developers sometimes break it. amandad relinquish root permissions too soon. Can you try the attached patch? Jean-Louis Chad

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-26 Thread Chad Kotil
eem to be doing that. Also, What keytab on the client needs to be read as root? --Chad On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: xinetd must be configured to run amandad as root. Jean-Louis Chad Kotil wrote: I am trying to setup krb5 auth on amanda 2.6.0p1. I built the server an

krb5 auth problem

2008-06-25 Thread Chad Kotil
I am trying to setup krb5 auth on amanda 2.6.0p1. I built the server and client --with-krb5-security, added a new principal to my KDC ([EMAIL PROTECTED] REALM), and wrote a keytab file and placed it on the server. It is locked down so only amandabackup (the user that runs amanda) can read i

Windows Server 2003 cant execute amandad.exe via inetd

2008-05-07 Thread Chad Kotil
I got it working. I chose to use xinetd rather than inetd, and ran everything under the same user, amandabackup. Rather than using the uer sshd_server to run xinetd. Which is what caused the problems. Thanks, Chad E. Kotil Global Research NOC

Windows Server 2003 cant execute amandad.exe via inetd

2008-05-01 Thread Chad Kotil
I've hit a brick wall in getting the amanda client 2.6.0 to work on windows server 2003. I used the .msi package available on zmanda.com, I can start inetd just fine, and xinetd too. But both of them fail to exectue amandad.exe. Here is the error that appears in the Windows Application log