is it possible to run the bacula-fd as a non-root user (knowing full
well that certain parts of the system can't be backed up properly
then)?
if you use the command line switch "-k" it will drop all privileges except ReadAll.
Don't know what packages/setup you're using but in Fedora/RHEL packages there's a sample config available in the configuration files and the binary is linked to libpcap:
$ ldd /usr/sbin/bacula-fd | grep cap libcap.so.2 => /lib64/libcap.so.2 (0x0000003a56400000)
In this case you have to tinker a bit with SELinux as well.
Regards,
--Simone
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