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Re: What user should be selected for amanda on reiserfs?

2006-11-10 09:27:47
Subject: Re: What user should be selected for amanda on reiserfs?
From: Giuseppe Sacco <giuseppe AT eppesuigoccas.homedns DOT org>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:22:16 +0100 
Il giorno ven, 10/11/2006 alle 08.28 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain ha
scritto:
[...]
> > In order to use gnu tar, I think I have to build amanda with
> > --with-user=root, otherwise the backup will not be able to read all
> > files. Is this true?
> 
> *No*.  Backups using tar are kicked off by the setuid root 'runtar' 
> binary.  Do *not* configure with user=root.

Thanks for clarifing it.
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