From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 19 15:32: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from akira.lanfear.com (akira.lanfear.com [208.12.10.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADCA814A2B for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 15:31:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcw@lanfear.com) Received: from SHURIKEN (shuriken.lanfear.com [208.12.10.35]) by akira.lanfear.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA10912 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 15:31:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcw@lanfear.com) Reply-To: From: "Marc Wandschneider" To: Subject: Who do you run backups as? Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 15:31:29 -0800 Message-ID: <000c01bf4a79$2d4f4050$230a0cd0@SHURIKEN> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG blaugh! currently, I'm running tape backups (dump) as root. However, I recall when i was last a system administrator (um ... six years ago), we ran them as a separate account. Question: Any reason they shouldn't be run as root? How does said non-root user still get permission to read all the files on all the file systems? thanks! marc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message