On Thursday 29 December 2005 14:19, Timo Neuvonen wrote:
> > Someone wiser than me needs to decide, if it's ok simply to change back
>
> user
>
> > to root. Or is there a reason why not to do this? Are there some other
> > changes that would really require a non-root user?
>
> Btw, this applies not only to the director, but also to the storage daemon.
> It also had been changed to run as bacula instead of root. So, it couldn't
> access the tape drive.
> File daemon was running as root by default.
>
> As a temporary solution I changed both of them to run as root. I hope
> someone tells if this was the proper fix.
Neither the Director nor the SD need to be run as root. You can run them as
root (I do), but this could potentially increase your security risk. To make
them run as non-root requires a bit of tweaking with your database
permissions and possibly with your tape drive permissions ...
Thanks for reporting this --- I'll add it to the documentation for things to
be aware of ...
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Best regards,
Kern
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