On Saturday 05 September 2009, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
>Any chance amanda/amcheck got installed suid root ?
Doubtful Gerhard, although I didn't check that at the time.
I simply went back to the amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090831 version and reran that
same script. The amcheck at the end of it had no problems, and neither did
my nightly backup last night.
I am also sending this to the list where it really belongs.
>> Greetings;
>>
>> As you know, I script most of the things I do that are repetitive, and a
>> fresh amanda install is no exception.
>>
>> You have all seen my "gh.cf" script, but here it is again:
>> ----------------------
>> #!/bin/sh
>> # since I'm always forgetting to su amanda...
>> if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; then
>> echo
>> echo "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Warning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
>> echo "Amanda needs to be configured and built by the"
>> echo "user amanda, but must be installed by user root."
>> echo
>> exit 1
>> fi
>> make clean
>> rm -f config.status config.cache
>> ./configure --with-user=amanda \
>> --with-group=disk \
>> --with-owner=amanda \
>> --with-gnu-ld \
>> --prefix=/usr/local \
>> --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \
>> --with-tape-server=coyote \
>> --with-bsdtcp-security --with-amandahosts \
>> --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda \
>> --with-config=Daily \
>> --with-gnutar=/bin/tar
>> echo "sleeping 5 seconds for reading configures warnings"
>> echo "a make as amanda will continue after..."
>> sleep 5
>> make
>> ---------------------------
>>
>> As that is limited due to the requirement that it be run as the user, in
>> this case amanda, I wrote another script to wrap that one in about a year
>> ago. Here it is: The cli is ./newmanda amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090904 (or
>> whatever version is being built)
>> ----------------------------
>> #!/bin/bash
>> VER=${1}
>> echo $VER
>> VER2=${1}.tar.gz
>> echo $VER2
>> su amanda -c "tar xzf $VER2" && \
>> su amanda -c "cp gh.cf $VER/" && \
>> cd $VER && \
>> su amanda -c "./gh.cf" && \
>> make install && \
>> su amanda -c "amcheck Daily"
>> ----------------------------
>> Pretty simple. However at the end of it, where it does the last line, it
>> complained:
>> -------------------------
>> amcheck: running as user "root" instead of "amanda".
>> Change user to "amanda" or change dump user to "root" in amanda.conf
>> -------------------------
>> Humm, problem, so I ran that last line by hand:
>> -------------------------
>> [root@coyote amanda]# su amanda -c "amcheck Daily"
>> amcheck: running as user "root" instead of "amanda".
>> Change user to "amanda" or change dump user to "root" in amanda.conf
>>
>> [root@coyote amanda]# su amanda
>>
>> [amanda@coyote ~]$ amcheck Daily
>> amcheck: running as user "root" instead of "amanda".
>> Change user to "amanda" or change dump user to "root" in amanda.conf
>> -------------------------
>>
>> /usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/amanda.conf wasn't touched by the install.
>> So I will re-install the 0831 version, this one seems to have a buglet.
>>
>> And of course it is the labor day weekend here in the states. Murphy is
>> alive and well. :)
>
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>
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