On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:07:25PM -0400, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> 
> No.  My personal account is NOT a member of the
> disk/operator/backup/whatever group.  Amanda doesn't *run* as me;
> I did the usual -- created an "amanda" account and configured the
> package with:
>     --with-user=amanda --with-group=<system-dependent-value>
> 
> My only question was why people find it useful to "configure
> --many-options; make" Amanda as that user, instead of as
> themselves.
> 

Some of the software will be running as amanda_user.  I prefer to
to do the configure and build as amanda_user so that the PATH and
other environment settings (umask, etc.) are set as they will when
the backups run.  Same for doing the creation of a configuration
directory, amanda.conf, ...  Do them with the same settings things
will run with.

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