On Friday 21 January 2005 18:18, Eric Siegerman wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:22:16PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> - configure and make as $AMANDAUSER
>
>I don't believe this is necessary.  One should avoid building
>Amanda as root, but that's not because it'll cause problems for
>Amanda; it's for the same reason one should avoid building
>*anything* as root.
>
This is correct, but maybe you wouldn't want the normal user to be a 
member of group disk?  Thats the main reason I can see for a seperate 
user 'amanda' who is a member of group disk, or maybe backup.

Most users are not that priviledged, and should not be.  And thats the 
main justification for a seperate user to run amanda.

>I've never had a problem building Amanda under my own user
>account, and it's hard to see why such a problem might ever
>occur.
>
>> make install as root
>
>This *is* necessary, of course.
>
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