On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 18:35:39 +0000 Jose M Calhariz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am reviewing the patches used by Debian to build amanda 3.3.9 and > updating them for amanda 3.4.1. I think some of them are not specific > to Debian. My plan is to present the patches here so they can be > reviewed for adoption or not. Thank you, thank you. May I request you end two irritants about the Debian version. It creates a user, "backup". That's fine, although "amanda", say, would avoid stepping on some other user named "backup". The irritant is that debian makes the user's home directory /var/backups. Something else uses that directory, and I don't like co-mingling the two different functions. It also sets the user shell to "/usr/sbin/nologin" rather than to bash, which is an irritant on the way to using amanda over ssh. -- The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. -- U.S. Const. Amendment IV Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
