Amanda does need its own user to operate.  You can create a new user, named 
Amanda, and make the user a part of the 'disk' group.  This gives Amanda 
permission to do its stuff.  

There's good information here...

http://people.web.psi.ch/bearpark/mirror/frankenlinux.com/guides/amandaintro.html

...that discusses the Amanda user, and specific permissions that the Amanda 
user needs to have in order to operate effectively, as well as a good deal of 
additional advice.  You can also check the docs directory of the source for 
more information.

-- 
Thanks,
Sak.

On Sunday 31 August 2003 04:14 pm, Scott Phelps wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a new subscriber and a new user of Amanda.  I'm just getting it set up
> and, I was reading through my new copy of Curtis Preston's book when I came
> to the point where I need to issue the command:
> # su amanda -c "amlabel DailySet-01 VOL1 slot 1"
>
> The problem is that nothing happens because (correct me if I'm wrong) su -c
> will not work without that user having a shell account.  I have all of my
> config files set up, and i am really anxious to start using it.  Could
> somebody shed some light on how to use Amanda's commands?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott