On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 at 8:57am, Orion Poplawski wrote

> On Friday 01 November 2002 08:37 am, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> > Not necessarily.  You can find out exactly what configure options were
> > used by looking in /tmp/amanda/amandad*debug.  Note that the runtar
> > executable needs to be owned by root and setuid (as do several other
> > programs -- this is done properly when you do 'make install' as root).
> 
> Here's the top of amandad*debug, but I'm not user what tells me how it was 

Oops.  Apparently that's 2.4.3 specific.  But, yes, it appears that 
CLIENT_LOGIN is the same as --with-user=.  Compiling for root is generally 
Bad.

> compiled (CLIENT_LOGIN?).   Also, runtar is setuid root (and most of the 
> progs in /libexec), so I'm not sure why the complaint about having to run as 
> root.

What does your inetd entry look like?

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University