On Wednesday 06 July 2005 11:31, Graeme Humphries wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 22:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> amanda cannot do an suid root if it was built as root, no way
>> around it due to the failure of the suid command if its already
>> owned by root.
>
>Certainly, but I don't think the Debian packages were built as root.
> I just choose to run amdump as root so that I can get into ACL
> protected directories that I can't touch the permissions on.

I think this is going to be problematic, Graeme.  But I'll defer to 
someone who is a bit more cognizant of the actual code.  I do know 
that I cannot run either amcheck or amdump here as root, the exit, 
complaining about it, is instant or nearly so.

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