Gene Heskett said:
> 
> Why not?  Its an excelent strategy to do so.  First, if you have 
> intentions of installing it as root, that won't work.  End of 
> discussion.
> 
> So whats so hard about adding a user "amanda" to all systems, and 
> making amanda a member of group "disk"?  Heck I build it from 
> tarballs as soon as Jean-Louis releases the next snapshot, and 
> because it just plain works, I've had no urge or reason to change 
> those although I do specify them in my configure script.
> 
> That download, configure, build and install takes about 6 minutes 
> here.  I'm not too sure installing the rpm would be that much faster.
> 
Note that the RPMs from RedHat, at least for 6.2 and 7.3, use the
operator user and disk group.

Josh