On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:09:52PM +0100, Henning.Grosskurth AT materna DOT de 
wrote:
> Hi amanda-users,
> 
> I'm trying to do an "amrecover" as root (because amanda tells me to do so as
> root... ) to recover files on the amanda-server itself, but I just get the
> following error-message:
> 
> "500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from
> [email protected]] amandahostsauth failed"

You have to add a line in .amandahost allowing root. This is _NOT_
required, untill you go to restore. Been there, doen that :-(
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