On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:18:09PM -0800, Kevin Till enlightened us:
> I agree with Paddy that ssh provides transport encryption and 
> authentication. The only caveat is that the amanda binary needs to be 
> installed at the same location in the server as well as in the client 
> since server is running:
> /path/ssh -l <CLIENT_LOGIN> client.zmanda.com $libexecdir/amandad
> to start the backup process.
> 

That's a problem (at least on RedHat/Fedora) for 64-bit users, since
$libexecdir is /usr/lib64 as opposed to /usr/lib on 32-bit systems.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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