On Monday 03 November 2003 09:48, Jim Summers wrote:
>On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 08:43, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>> On 3 Nov 2003 at 8:37am, Jim Summers wrote
>>
>> > ===========
>> > amrestore: could not open /dev/nst0: Permission denied
>>
>> What does 'ls -l /dev/nst0' say?  And what user and group runs
>> amanda on the server?
>
>Sorry I forgot to include that in the original:
>
>
>[root@backus amanda]# ls -l /dev/nst0
>crw-rw----    1 root     disk       9, 128 Jan 30  2003 /dev/nst0
>[root@backus amanda]# ls -l /dev/sg1
>crw-rw----    1 root     disk      21,   1 Jan 30  2003 /dev/sg1
>
>I built amanda with --with-user=bin and --with-group=disk
>
That looks as if it could be part of the problem.  I think bin has 
near root rights, and amandas --with-user should specify an 
unpriviledged user when configuring.

>TIA

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