On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:40:35PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > Also, in creating the Amanda user should I let the system do this by
> > simply specifying --with-user=Amanda or should I create an Amanda user
> > then specify --with-user=Amanda?

--with-user=foo will *not* create the "foo" user for you; you
have to do that yourself.  It doesn't matter whether you do it
before or after building Amanda, but I suspect that "foo" has to
exist by the time you install it.  Which suggests that creating
the userid before you start to build Amanda is less error-prone;
one doesn't have to remember an extra step between "make" and
"make install".

> Most people build the software as the amanda_user.

Why?  I just built it under my own account, and everything went
ok.  (I did the "make install" as root of course.)

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