At 2003-01-02T15:26:06Z, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu> writes:

> Amanda uses a suid wrapper to run tar as root when making backups.

I guess my question was triggered by error messages like:

    root@kanga:~# su operator -c "amcheck -c Daily"

    Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
    --------------------------------
    ERROR: kanga.honeypot.net: [could not access /usr/share/media/music/all 
(/usr/share/media/music/all): Permission denied]
    Client check: 3 hosts checked in 0.388 seconds, 1 problem found

    (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3)

Yes, tar *does* seem to be backing everything up.  It seems that only
amcheck is throwing errors.
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