On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 16:32:57 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Humm, from /etc/passwd:
> 
> amanda:x:1001:6:...:/var/lib/amanda:/bin/bash
> backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh
 
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 21:46:37 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> So you don't even have a user amanda, nor a /home/amanda directory...


On a stock Debian/Ubuntu installation, UID 1001 is the first in the
"user accounts" range, which would indicate that you created that
'amanda' account "manually" at some point....

On the other hand, 'backup' is a standard user that's part of all Debian
installs; the Amanda packages use it, but so do some other parts of the
system even if Amanda is not installed.  (In other words, the Amanda
packages are simply piggybacking on an already-existing system user.)


                                                        Nathan

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