On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 04:38:24PM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> Amcheck tells me the following:
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> ERROR: samba2: [could not access /dev/hdc1 (hdc1): Permission denied]
> ERROR: samba2: [could not access /dev/hda1 (hda1): Permission denied]
> ERROR: samba2: [can not read/write /etc/dumpdates: Permission denied]
> Client check: 1 host checked in 0.030 seconds, 3 problems found
> 
> [root@samba2 amanda]# ls -l /dev/hd{a,c}1
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   1 Apr 11 09:25 /dev/hda1
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk      22,   1 Apr 11 09:25 /dev/hdc1
> 
> [root@samba2 amanda]# groups amanda
> amanda : disk backup
> 
> What gives? I'm not about to make my disks worldreadable at the block
> level. I've seen alot of questions about this on the mailing lists but no
> answers. Any ideas?

There's been lots of answers.

First guess is you did not install with root suid permissions the
several executables that require it.  The installation is recommended
to be done as the root user because of this requirement.

On /etc/dumpdates that is probably not writable by amanda:disk.
However, it is recommended that amanda be compiled to use /etc/amandates
and not /etc/dumpdates as other programs use the latter also.
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