On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:58:48 -0400
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:

> On Thursday 01 October 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Gene Heskett
> ><gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> 
> wrote:
> >> Many many thanks for the hint, but it was confusing that it was the
> >> Shop:/home/amanda/.amandahosts file I fixed, and not the
> >> Shop:/home/backup/.amandahosts.
> >
> >Presumably backup's home directory (in /etc/passwd) is /home/amanda.
> >Don't blame me, I'm not a kubuntu developer.
> 
> See?  Its sort of a now it can be told thing.  But that brings up the 
> question of who owns /home/amanda on such a (broken IMO) installation?

Actually, nobody owns it; it doesn't exist on a standard Ubuntu
installation. From my unchanged Ubuntu client installation:

root@dzur:/var# grep backup /etc/passwd
backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh
root@dzur:/var# 

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