Re: bizarre bug fixed but not explained

2006-10-02 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Steve Newcomb wrote: Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your bug is also with: chmod -R 6770 /home/amanda/libexec/* /home/amanda/sbin/* Setting all binary to suid and sgid is a bad idea, especially since you set their owner to root. From my script, with

Re: bizarre bug fixed but not explained

2006-10-01 Thread Steve Newcomb
Jean-Louis Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your bug is also with: chmod -R 6770 /home/amanda/libexec/* /home/amanda/sbin/* Setting all binary to suid and sgid is a bad idea, especially since you set their owner to root. From my script, with added comments: chown -R amanda.disk

Re: bizarre bug fixed but not explained

2006-09-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Your bug is also with: chmod -R 6770 /home/amanda/libexec/* /home/amanda/sbin/* Setting all binary to suid and sgid is a bad idea, especially since you set their owner to root. With the owner set to amanda, it's not a good idea either. You should only set suid and sgid on required binary

Re: bizarre bug fixed but not explained

2006-09-30 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:47:42PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:01:46PM -0400, Steve Newcomb wrote: chown root.disk /home/amanda/libexec/runtar All the chown's I've used require a colon (':'), not a period ('.') between the user and group. It's a BSD-ism that's

Re: bizarre bug fixed but not explained

2006-09-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 11:17:38AM -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:47:42PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:01:46PM -0400, Steve Newcomb wrote: chown root.disk /home/amanda/libexec/runtar All the chown's I've used require a colon (':'), not

bizarre bug fixed but not explained

2006-09-29 Thread Steve Newcomb
Dear Kevin, et al., My bug in which Amanda created its dump-holding directory with permissions that made it impossible for it to write on that directory --- it's fixed. The fix was to change the ownership of one or more of the files in /home/amanda. I'm not sure which file ownerships made the

Re: bizarre bug fixed but not explained

2006-09-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:01:46PM -0400, Steve Newcomb wrote: Dear Kevin, et al., My bug in which Amanda created its dump-holding directory with permissions that made it impossible for it to write on that directory --- it's fixed. The fix was to change the ownership of one or more of the