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Re: amcheck gets permission denied error

2009-09-24 09:53:41
Subject: Re: amcheck gets permission denied error
From: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert AT linux-m68k DOT org>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:27:03 -0400
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert AT linux-m68k DOT org> wrote:
> Amdump also succeeded. But we can't to be expected to add the backup
> user to _all_ groups, right?

Tar should be running via the setuid script, runtar, so it should have
root privs to back up anything.  The client-side amcheck checks do
*not* run with these privileges, so the top-level directory for each
DLE must be readable to the backup user.

Dustin

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