I'd thought that was what amruntar and amrundump where for, those
are already suid ??

> I'm setting up amanda in a company where the everyday operations of tape 
> rotations etc. will be performed by little less than savy users, I got a 
> system going with a tape changer and amanda's email works perfect for the 
> task.
> 
> The only problem is that occasionally backups will spread over tapes on 
> different chargers and I'd prefer to let them flush in the morning rather 
> than reorganize tapes in chargers.
> 
> To keep it short, I want a regular user to be able to run amflush without 
> logging as a more privileged user (I'm even thinking about putting an Icon on 
> their desktop to do that :) )
> 
> I chmodded u+s and o-x /usr/sbin/amflush and added the user to the group.
> 
> Any security concerns? 
> 
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> Riccardo Parola
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