Hello,

I'm having problems with my amanda configuration and I'm not sure if it is with 
the client or the server, though it seems at the moment to be the server.   
I've tried going through the FAQ, Docs, etc and even asked on the IRC channel 
but I can't figure out what's going on.   

I installed amanda with the --with-user and --with-group both set to "backup".  
   When I run amcheck as the backup user  I get the error message:

ERROR: NAK <amandaclient.com>: access as root not allowed from 
backup@<amandaserver.com>: cannot open /root/.amandahosts: Permission denied

I don't understand what it's trying to do as root or why, I'm not running 
amcheck as root.    If I do try to run it as root, I see the message "running 
as root instead of backup" so I know that it knows it's supposed to be running 
as user backup...

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Jeff