Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] What is the bacula user's home directory?

2009-01-16 09:36:17
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] What is the bacula user's home directory?
From: Pascal Clermont <pascal-list AT LEXUM.UMontreal DOT CA>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:33:46 -0500
Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:15:01 -0800, Kevin Keane said:
>> In my configuration, the bacula-dir and bacula-sd both run as user 
>> bacula rather than root, as recommended.
>>
>> Now I am trying to run a Run Before script that includes wget to a 
>> password-protected site. The user name and password are in a .netrc 
>> file. It doesn't work - wget does not use the user name and password 
>> stored from the .netrc file. Apparently, the Run Before Job script is 
>> using root's environment and home directory even when running as user 
>> "bacula". Consequently, .netrc is unreadable to the script.
>>
>> Is there a way to work around this without putting the user name and 
>> password into the script itself?
> 
> If wget is using $HOME to find the home directory, then you'll need to set
> that in the run before script to make it work.
> 
> __Martin
IDK if you got your answer, but "vipw" displays 
"bacula:x:405:6:Bacula:/var/lib/bacula:/sbin/nologin" as you can see on 
my setup it is in /var/lib/bacula , vipw is your friend.

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