Bug 529159 - amanda doesn't have permissions to write to tape devices
Summary: amanda doesn't have permissions to write to tape devices
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: amanda
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Daniel Novotny
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-10-15 08:46 UTC by Vadym Chepkov
Modified: 2009-11-04 12:32 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.6.0p2-9.fc11
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Last Closed: 2009-11-04 12:32:43 UTC
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Description Vadym Chepkov 2009-10-15 08:46:33 UTC 
amanda-2.6.0p2-8.fc11.i586

By default amandabackup user is member of disk group only.
Default permissions on /dev/changer and /dev/st0 now allow access only to root and tape group:

ls -l /dev/st0 /dev/sg4
crw-rw----. 1 root tape 21, 4 2009-10-15 04:30 /dev/sg4
crw-rw----. 1 root tape  9, 0 2009-10-15 04:30 /dev/st0


amandabackup has to be added to tape group
Comment 1 Daniel Novotny 2009-10-15 13:06:14 UTC 
Hello Vadym,

thanks for letting me know about this problem. I will fix it on all branches, because without the proper access rights, Amanda cannot function at all. For Fedora 12 I will have to break devel freeze, but IMHO this change is worth it.

now fixed in rawhide (amanda-2.6.0p2-14.fc13), other branches will follow.
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-10-15 14:02:32 UTC 
amanda-2.6.0p2-9.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/amanda-2.6.0p2-9.fc11
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-10-21 00:42:39 UTC 
amanda-2.6.0p2-9.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update amanda'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10607
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-11-04 12:32:38 UTC 
amanda-2.6.0p2-9.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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