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On Friday, 08.09.2006 at 01:28 -0500, Phil Howard wrote:

> These packages configure the user to run Amanda as "backup".  But it
> seems the "backup" user also does other things.  Does anyone see any
> possible conflict in this?

I'd say "may be used for other things", rather than "also does other
things", really.

To be honest, a user called backup makes more sense than a user called
'amanda' - we used to have a staff member called Amanda who existed
prior to an AMANDA installation and things got ... messy.

On a Debian system, the backup user is a member of the appropriate
system groups to allow backups to function, i.e. a member of 'disk'

For what it's worth, on a Debian Stable system, I've found that the
AMANDA packages Just Work very nicely, especially on the clients, since
there is basically no configuration required.

Feel free to ask further related questions, because I've been using
AMANDA on Debian systems for many years...

Dave.
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