On Mon, 19 May 2003 at 2:15pm, Jon LaBadie wrote

> > When you run amdump, amanda runs tar via the setuid root 'runtar' wrapper.  
> > During amcheck, all processes are run as the amanda user.  So, if the 
> > amanda user can't cd into /home/blom, you'll get those erros.  The backup 
> > will probably still work...
>
> amcheck is setuid root also -- at least on my system.
> Does it change its euid to check access?

It's not amcheck that gets run on the clients, it's selfcheck, which isn't 
setuid root.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University