Amanda-Users

Re: amandahostsauth failing -- why?

2002-08-20 18:42:23
Subject: Re: amandahostsauth failing -- why?
From: Scott Sanders <ssanders AT conceptsdirectinc DOT com>
To: Schlomo Schwartz <l1nuxn1nja AT yahoo DOT com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:31:56 -0600
Just double checking here, is /var/lib/amanda the amanda users home dir?

Schlomo Schwartz wrote:

> --- Jim Summers <jsummers AT bachman.cs.ou DOT edu> wrote:
> > 1. the amanda hosts exists on all participants
> > 2. format correct?
> >    <hostname> <amandausername> || <hostname.domain>
> > <amandausername>
> > 3. the file is in the amanda user home.
>
> Here's the contents of my /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts
>
> lin01 amanda
> lin01.foobar.com amanda
> localhost amanda
> localhost.localdomain amanda
>
> By default, there is the last two (localhost* amanda)
> and when that didn't work, I added the "lin01 amanda"
> entry and when _that_ didn't work, "lin01.foobar.com
> amanda" was added.
>
> Here's the permissions on that file:
>
> -rw-------    1 amanda   disk          101 Aug 20
> 11:28 .amandahosts
>
> xinetd is running on the client and the only service
> that's available is amanda.
>
> I don't know what else could be wrong -- I can see the
> server request the info, it gets logged, and for some
> reason, the server's authentication is failing.  What
> sort of authentication is it trying to do, exactly?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Schlomo
>
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