On Saturday 25 November 2006 09:42, Aaron Konstam wrote: >On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 07:58 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> reetings; >> >> Despite the fact that the user 'amanda' is a member of the group >> 'disk', >> all compilations and new files generated by the user amanda seem to >> be >> owned by amanda:amanda instead of the expected amanda:disk. > >Sounds like a job for SGID. If a directory is SGID then all files that >are created in that directory are in the same group as the directory. Not too sure I understand what you are saying Aaron. What is SGID? That has never been the case before: [amanda@coyote /]$ ls -l /home/ total 56 drwx------ 26 amanda amanda 4096 Nov 25 07:44 amanda drwx------ 14 502 502 4096 Nov 12 2002 elmer drwx------ 41 gene gene 4096 Nov 25 10:54 gene drwx------ 3 503 503 4096 Nov 21 2002 roadrunner drwxr-xr-x 18 gene gene 4096 Aug 14 03:42 shop drwxr-xr-x 19 1000 1000 4096 Aug 13 2004 shop-gene drwxr-xr-x 6 1002 1002 4096 Dec 14 2005 spamd This tree was copied over from the old FC2 /home directory which looks like this: [amanda@coyote GenesAmandaHelper-0.5]$ ls -l /mnt/hdb/home total 36 drwxr-xr-x 21 33 disk 4096 Nov 8 23:37 amanda drwx------ 3 amanda amanda 4096 Nov 9 2004 elladene drwx------ 14 502 502 4096 Nov 12 2002 elmer drwx------ 36 gene gene 4096 Nov 9 16:32 gene drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Oct 22 2002 lost+found drwx------ 3 503 503 4096 Nov 21 2002 roadrunner drwxr-xr-x 18 gene gene 4096 Aug 14 03:42 shop drwxr-xr-x 19 1000 1000 4096 Aug 13 2004 shop-gene drwxr-xr-x 6 1002 1002 4096 Dec 14 2005 spamd Which was done after the user was created. Now, if I look at the old FC2 passwd file and grep for amanda, this comes back: [amanda@coyote /]$ grep amanda /mnt/hdb/disk/etc/passwd amanda:x:33:6:Amanda user:/home/amanda:/bin/bash How amanda ever got to be userID 33 I have NDI. For FC6, I get this: [amanda@coyote /]$ grep amanda /etc/passwd amanda:x:501:501::/home/amanda:/bin/bash But the same on the group file: FC2:disk:x:6:amanda,root FC6:disk:x:6:amanda,root Am I supposed to hand edit the passwd file to change that second number to a 6? That doesn't make sense when I've already used the menu tools to supposedly do that. Here is the contents of that directory: [amanda@coyote ~]$ ls -l total 19616 drwxr-xr-x 20 amanda disk 4096 Oct 21 06:04 amanda-2.5.1p1-20061020 -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 1888117 Nov 1 17:04 amanda-2.5.1p1-20061101.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 20 amanda disk 4096 Nov 2 22:12 amanda-2.5.1p1-20061102 -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 1888410 Nov 2 20:29 amanda-2.5.1p1-20061102.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 1888772 Nov 6 21:05 amanda-2.5.1p1-20061106.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 20 amanda disk 4096 Nov 7 14:00 amanda-2.5.1p1-20061107 -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 1888823 Nov 7 13:58 amanda-2.5.1p1-20061107.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 20 amanda disk 4096 Nov 8 23:39 amanda-2.5.1p1-20061108 -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 1888999 Nov 8 22:44 amanda-2.5.1p1-20061108.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 20 amanda disk 4096 Nov 11 20:32 amanda-2.5.1p2-20061109 -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 1890485 Nov 11 20:12 amanda-2.5.1p2-20061109.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 1890480 Nov 14 14:06 amanda-2.5.1p2-20061114.tar.gz drwxrwxrwx 20 amanda disk 4096 Nov 22 07:45 amanda-2.5.1p2-20061120 -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 1890762 Nov 20 22:09 amanda-2.5.1p2-20061120.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 20 amanda amanda 4096 Nov 25 07:46 amanda-2.5.1p2-20061124 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1892383 Nov 24 19:07 amanda-2.5.1p2-20061124.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 805 Oct 5 2004 fix-3hole.ps -rwxr-xr-x 1 amanda disk 673 Nov 11 20:19 gh.cf drwx------ 2 amanda amanda 4096 Nov 22 16:39 Mail -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 1530 Feb 8 2003 tapetype-pagesize.diff Now, anecdotal. As root, I chowned that whole subdir of /home/amanda to be amanda:disk, then did the make install, then ran a backup which has now finished succesfully, everything had enough perms to do its job. But I want this to be automatic like it was on the 21st (that was also built on FC6, the earlier ones were on FC2), not something I have to do by hand everytime I install a new amanda, which may be several times a week. I'm one of the 'canaries in the coal mine' type testers. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
