Mitch Collinsworth schrieb:
> 
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> Sounds BAD.
>>
>> I'd like to know more on that ... is this a major issue for Amanda in
>> general ... do we have to do major patches ... what can we do ...
> 
> It's BAD for those of us who are trying to offer backups for machines
> that aren't centrally managed.  
> It was discussed a bit on -hackers in
> 2004 - April and again in July.  Solutions were suggested but never
> agreed upon.  One was to add another setuid to perform include
> parsing.  Another was to add include parsing to gnutar.

I don't remember that thread:
- What exactly do you mean by "(not) centrally managed"?

(I will dig up those threads later if necessary ...)

>> Amanda 2.5.0 is near and I would really prefer to get it out without
>> major problems in its source code.
> 
> I haven't looked at 2.5.0 code to see if it's fixed there or not.

I cc'd JLM on this, I assume he will know the answer ;-)

Stefan