On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 04:16:07PM -0800, Kevin Till enlightened us:
> Matt Hyclak wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:32:41PM -0500, Guy Dallaire enlightened us:
> >
> >>2005/11/10, Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu>:
> 
> >>>>
> >>>>Which ports does amrecover use to contact the tape server ?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>10082 tcp and 10083 tcp.
> >>>
> 
> amrecover needs a privileged tcp port to connect to the server.  It's 
> the only amanda program that requires privileged "TCP" port

I read that the other way around as what port *on* the server. The
priviledged port on the client is what necessitates running amrecover as
root. 

Glad we got that cleared up :-)

Matt

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