Amanda-Users

Re: amfetchdump: running as user "root" instead of "amanda" ??

2008-11-04 13:06:35
Subject: Re: amfetchdump: running as user "root" instead of "amanda" ??
From: Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com>
To: Jean-Francois Malouin <Jean-Francois.Malouin AT bic.mni.mcgill DOT ca>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:02:31 -0500
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
Is this a new feature? I've done restore as root in the past I'm sure
and never seen this before. Have been living blind all this time? :)
So I guess I was lucky enough to do the amfetchdump in a dir owned by
amanda and then it could recreate the dir structure and file
ownerships...

Maybe you were using amrestore? It doesn't need amanda privilege.

Jean-Louis