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Is it possible to change the account that runs the amanda client on a Debian host? My site is predominately CentOS 7 and all the amanda clients use amandabackup as the client login. I need a few Debian hosts but they all seem restricted to using backup as the client login.

When I test the backup from the server I get errors like this:

% amservice debclient bsdtcp noop < /dev/null    
Request failed: tcpm_recv_token: invalid size: "amandad: cannot look up client user \"backup\"\n"

I've changed the entries in /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts, xinetd (and restarted) and anything I can find in /etc/amanda* - all to no avail.

Is it possible to change this login without building a custom client?

Alternatively - can the two accounts - amandabackup(server) and backup(deb client) live in harmony?

ethrbunny
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A user other than amandabackup is not an option. Because amandabackup user is defined at the time of compiling only this user will have all the privileges to run amanda operations like amdump, amstatus. You may have to define a new user in the source code.

anx
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suresh kullollikar
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