On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 16:01, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 03:40:16PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote:
> > First install of amanda...  Freebsd 5.2.1, Amanda 2.4.4p2.
> > I used bin and operator when compiling.
> 
> I much prefer to create a new userid just for Amanda.  If it runs
> as bin, then it can write to a large part of the system (no

For compatibility with pre-compiled RPMs for Linux, I like to use amanda
UID 33 and disk GID 6 that just keeps everything consistent across all
of the platforms that I back up.  GID 6 has read but not write access to
the disk devices for "dump" style backups (xfsdump, ufsdump, dump etc.)
and no users are members of that group.

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Jonathan Dill <jfdill AT jfdill DOT com>