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

2008-11-05 15:01:35
Subject: Re: amfetchdump: running as user "root" instead of "amanda" ??
From: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
To: "Jean-Francois Malouin" <Jean-Francois.Malouin AT bic.mni.mcgill DOT ca>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:35:24 -0500 
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Jean-Francois Malouin
<Jean-Francois.Malouin AT bic.mni.mcgill DOT ca> 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...

We improved how Amanda checks userids.  There may have been a bug that
accidentally allowed amfetchdump to run as root in a previous version.

Dustin

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