On Nov 18, 2008, at 12:37 PM, John Drescher wrote:

> 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.

Further to that, I feel that any packaging which runs DIr and SD as  
root is broken.

See 
http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Brief_Tutorial.html#SECTION0012140000000000000000

That should have the options.  It does not.

But here's a start:

$ bacula-dir -?
Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Free Software Foundation Europe e.V.

Version: 2.4.3 (10 October 2008)

Usage: dird [-f -s] [-c config_file] [-d debug_level] [config_file]
        -c <file>   set configuration file to file
        -dnn        set debug level to nn
        -f          run in foreground (for debugging)
        -g          groupid
        -r <job>    run <job> now
        -s          no signals
        -t          test - read configuration and exit
        -u          userid
        -v          verbose user messages
        -?          print this message.



-- 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/





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