On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, John R. Jackson wrote:
> You have a group with write access to the raw device??? Ick.
Err, this meant read access :-)
Peter
>So this means I don't have to add amanda to the group that has write
>permission on the raw device. right?
You have a group with write access to the raw device??? Ick.
But the answer is yes, you are correct. When using GNU tar, the raw
devices (and their permissions) are irrelevant.
>Peter
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >I'm familiar with the amanda user needing to be in the group
> >allowed to read raw devices when using 'dump'. Is this also
> >suffient when using 'tar' or do the file and directory permissions
> >prevail?
>
> Amanda runs tar underneath a setuid-ro
>I'm familiar with the amanda user needing to be in the group
>allowed to read raw devices when using 'dump'. Is this also
>suffient when using 'tar' or do the file and directory permissions
>prevail?
Amanda runs tar underneath a setuid-root wrapper program, so it doesn't
need any special permis
Hi,
I'm familiar with the amanda user needing to be in the group
allowed to read raw devices when using 'dump'. Is this also
suffient when using 'tar' or do the file and directory permissions
prevail?
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