On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 at 2:07pm, pll+amanda AT permabit DOT com wrote

> I'd prefer to use tar to perform backups, primarilly for portability 
> of restores.  However, amanda is running as user 'backup' which 
> doesn't seem to have read permissions in many places.

Amanda calls tar via the setuid root 'runtar' wrapper.  So when it runs 
the backups, it can get everything.  If amcheck is complaining, it's 
because selfcheck doesn't run setuid root.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University