Yes, the user amandabackup exists, as you can see it owns all the  
amanda-related files. I've checked nsswitch.conf and it's checking  
files before nisplus on passwd, so that's not it.

I'm unsure what you mean by inetd log, but from what I've searched  
it's enabling tcp_trace and tcp_wrappers on the amanda service and  
check the syslog for any inetd related entries. Nothing shows up,  
including on a tail -f syslog while I try to connect from the server  
with amcheck. Can you be more specific about which log to check/use if  
what I did was not it?

Thank you for the response, though. I'm going slightly insane here

Abilio



On May 19, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:

> Abilio Carvalho wrote:
>> the log directory on the client only has the following:
>>
>> root@BACKUPCLIENT:/tmp/amanda/amandad# cat amandad. 
>> 20090519111556.debug
>> 1242724556.328466: amandad: pid 18933 ruid 0 euid 0 version 2.6.1:   
>> start at Tue May 19 11:15:56 2009
>>
> ruid 0 euid 0
> That's root user
> Do you have an amandabackup user on the client
> Check inet log
>
> Jean-Louis
>
>> 1242724556.339271: amandad: security_getdriver(name=bsdtcp)  
>> returns  ff31c788
>> 1242724556.339369: amandad: critical (fatal): Amanda must be run  
>> as  user 'amandabackup' when using 'bsdtcp' authentication
>>
>> I can't even see what user it's TRYING to use, only that it should  
>> be  running as amandabackup. All relevant config files tell me that  
>> it IS.  Any way to get more descriptive logs? I tried debug_amandad  
>> on the  amanda-client.conf, but that had no effect
>>
>> please help
>>
>> Abilio
>>
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