(replying to all this time..)
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:30 AM, stan <stanb AT panix DOT com> wrote:
> Can someone plaes help me to understand a bit of Amanda internals tat I
> have never needed to understand before. but it appears that I do now.

We get this sort of question a lot, so Paul Yeatman wrote up a manpage
for it.  See amanda-auth(7):
 http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda-auth.7.html

Thanks, Paul :)

Dustin

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