On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 11:34:44PM +0000, David Trusty wrote:
> Jon,
> 
> Thanks for replying to my question.
> 
> I think I know the cause of the messages.  See if you agree with this
> theory:
> 
> Even though amanda does not run as root, the tar command which archives
> everything does run as root.  (I believe this is true because I have 
> individual files
> which have 700 permissions which do get archived.)
> 
> However, when the amcheck command is run, it is not running as root, and if
> the directory ("disk" in my case) being archived has permission 700, an 
> extraneous
> error message is printed.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> David
> 
> >
> >On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:33:48PM +0000, David Trusty wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Even though the amcheck command is setuid root, it reports
> >> an error on directories with rwx------ (700) permissions.
> >> It says "could not access <dir> : permission denied".
> >>
> >> I believe this behavior is new to the 2.4.3 release.
> >>
> >> Is there a patch available?
> >
> >Most likely it is complaining about specific directories that
> >should not be 700.  Remember that amanda does NOT run as root.
> >amcheck is detecting things that will cause errors.
> >--
> 


Come on David.  Don't keep us in the dark.
Let us see the error message.
What directory is amcheck complaining about?
I suggested it may be complaining about a
specific directory that should not be 700?
Is it?  We can not tell without your input.

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