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 >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
