On Thursday 15 August 2002 10:47, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:40:33PM +0100, janebackup wrote:
>> Hi thanks for your email, I'm sorry to be a pain but could you
>> tell me if I can just add the amanda user to my root group.  If
>> not what permission does the new disk group need?
>
>YMMV, this is my system.
>
>$ ls -lL /dev/dsk
>total 0
>    ...
>brw-r-----   1 root     sys       29,392 Jul 20  2001 c1t6d0s8
>brw-r-----   1 root     sys       29,393 Jul 20  2001 c1t6d0s9
>    ^                   ^^^
>    group read          amanda must have this group permissions
>
>Seldom (in my experience) is the disk group the root group.
>
>Some systems allow only a single group membership at a time.
>In that case amanda should login as part of the disk group (sys
> for me).
>
>Other system allow multiple, simultaneous group membership.  On
> those, amanda needs be listed as a member of the disk group (sys
> for me).
>
>
>300 lines of email message for a 3 line question is overkill.

Agreed.  I aso got a private copy of this, and I took her question 
to be 'could I make amanda a member of group root'  which I said I 
suppose so since the group 'disk' has amanda and root as alternate 
members here on my machine according to linuxconf.

Is this not correct, Jon?

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