On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote:

> > > When you run amdump, amanda runs tar via the setuid root 'runtar' wrapper.
> > > During amcheck, all processes are run as the amanda user.  So, if the
> > > amanda user can't cd into /home/blom, you'll get those erros.  The backup
> > > will probably still work...
> >
> > amcheck is setuid root also -- at least on my system.
> > Does it change its euid to check access?
> 
> :It's not amcheck that gets run on the clients, it's selfcheck, which isn't
> :setuid root.

Shall I set it "setuid root" or not? Why isn't this set by the normal 
installation routine? Is this insecure?

Thnx,
Ciao,
Simon Frettloeh