On Tuesday 08 July 2003 22:18, Josh Welch wrote:
>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

Well, in this case its the perms of 'disk' that count.  So thats 
basicly a ho-hum.  OTOH, haveing a seperate user named amanda, with 
its own password, does seem to me to be another layer of brick in the 
security dept.  And if you're into humor, you could have a user named 
Elmer_Fudpucker, and use his brothers name as a password.  Yeah I 
know, that joke has a long grey beard and has been collecting social 
security for decades.  As long as he was a member of group disk (and 
amanda is compiled with that name as user) it would work just fine, 
but with minimal security because everybody knows who Elmers brother 
is. <VBG>

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