Hi,

in our amanda setup there are no other clients than the backup server
itself. The amanda software was compiled with the
options--with-user=amanda --with-owner=amanda --with-group=sys so that
all services do run under a separate amanda user. 

To be able to read all files within the local filesystems I have set the
parameter dumpuser to "root" in the amanda.conf file. Backups are now
running fine. But I am running into permission problems with amrecover.

The problem is that all files under etc/<config>/index and all log.*
files under etc/<config> are all assigned to the root user. The amindexd
yet runs under the amanda user and therefore isn't able to read those
files properly.

To fix the problem I was thinking about recompiling amanda to run all
services completely under the uid root to avoid the permission problems.

But maybe there is a better way to accomplish my goal. It would be great
if someone could point me into the right direction.

Many thanks in advance,

mark
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