Subject: Re: perms of /sbin/dump
To: Wenchi Liao <wliao@midway.uchicago.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/29/1999 12:05:13
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 01:54:30PM -0500, Wenchi Liao wrote:
> [...]
> uid=3418(wliao) gid=3418 groups=3418, 0(wheel)

If you where in group operator this would work (on my 1.3.3 system,
user amanda is in group operator and it can perform the dumps).
Now that I remember it, dump is sgid ttys so that it can send messages to
logged users when he needs attention.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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