Mitch Collinsworth schrieb:
> 
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> IIRC amcheck does NOT run some of its checks as root.
>> Thus if the amanda user running amcheck can not visit
>> /mnt/data06/Deforest3 and needed directories below that,
>> it could cause errors like that above when amcheck looked
>> for files.
> 
> It's worse than that.  Include processing is performed before setuid
> root mode is started.  selfcheck, sendsize, and sendbackup all fail
> to include directories that the amanda user can't read.  You just
> lose and the directories don't get backed up.  Makes it hard to
> provide a backup service for machines that aren't centrally managed,
> which is more and more the way the world (for some of us) is going.

Sounds BAD.

I'd like to know more on that ... is this a major issue for Amanda in
general ... do we have to do major patches ... what can we do ...

Amanda 2.5.0 is near and I would really prefer to get it out without
major problems in its source code.

Greetings, Stefan.