On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 03:46, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> 
wrote:
> On Thursday 01 October 2009, Charles Curley wrote:
>>On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:51:56 -0400
>>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
>>> On Thursday 01 October 2009, Charles Curley wrote:
>>> >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:
>>> >>
>>> >> 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#
>>>
>>> Oookaaay, what do you get from a "grep amanda /etc/passwd"?
>>
>>About the value of a political promise on election night.
>>
>>ccurley@dragon:~$ egrep amanda\|backup /etc/passwd
>>backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh
>>ccurley@dragon:~$ grep amanda /etc/passwd
>>ccurley@dragon:~$
>>
> So you don't even have a user amanda, nor a /home/amanda directory...
>
> Interesting.  Bears further investigation I believe.  When I'm fresher.

Debian and Ubuntu use the `backup' user. It's homedir is `/var/backups', and
/var/backups/.amandahosts is a symlink to /etc/amandahosts.

BTW, I never had issues with it (Debian user since long before I
started using Amanda
in 1997).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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