Hi, Frank,

on Samstag, 14. Mai 2005 at 01:54 you wrote to amanda-users:

>> I thought this would be obvious ... every DLE has to be readable by
>> the amanda-user or, more detailled, the user, AMANDA has been
>> configured with (--with-user).

FS> That's not technically correct, I back up several DLEs that are not
FS> readable by the amanda user.  Using a group such as disk or bin may give
FS> it access to the underlying device in order to run dump, but it doesn't 
give it
FS> access to all directories on that device when using tar.  That is why many 
of
FS> the amanda binaries are suid root, so it can back it up.

You're right, my mistake ... sorry about that misinformation.
-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at