On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Kevin Keane <subscription AT kkeane DOT com> 
wrote:
> In the documentation, I saw the tip to run the director and the SD as a
> non-root user (
> http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Bacula_Security_Issues.html#SECTION004630000000000000000
> ) I like that idea very much.
>
> But I can't quite figure out how to actually do it, because I can't
> figure out how to tell bacula-dir and bacula-sd to become user "bacula"
> instead of continuing to run as root. What am I missing?
>

You need to edit your startup scripts. This tends to be distribution
specific so you might want to ask your distro. Or at minimum tell us
what distro you are using.

John

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