On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Dan Langille wrote:

>
> 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.

The version in SVN now has these options.
-- 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/





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