[pkg-bacula-commits] [SCM] Bacula, a network backup, recovery and verification program branch, master, updated. debian/5.2.6+dfsg-3-6-g7419818

Alexander Golovko alexandro at ankalagon.ru
Mon Sep 24 13:49:13 UTC 2012


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 74198182c2fa9e2567077356e345ff5251e26bf1
Author: Alexander Golovko <alexandro at ankalagon.ru>
Date:   Mon Sep 24 17:49:02 2012 +0400

    add info about capabilities usage into README.Debian

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 11c9936..cfb3140 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -83,9 +83,16 @@ Make sure you customize the passwords in the files in /etc/bacula.
 
 The installation will create a bacula user on the system, and the
 daemons and RunBefore/RunAfter jobs will run as that user.  However,
-the file director must run as root, as will your ClientRunBefore/After
-jobs.  Installation of a director will ask you for a database user to
-use.
+the file daemon run as root, as will your ClientRunBefore/After
+jobs. File daemon can use linux capabilities(7) for drop root
+privileges, but it require root privileges for correctly restore
+files original permissions. For run file daemon without root 
+privileges you can add ARGS="-k -u <username>" into
+/etc/default/bacula-fd. Installation of a director will ask you for a
+database user to use.
+
+File daemon can be run without root privileges, it has support for
+keep 
 
 You can run Bacula consoles as any user, but the user you use will
 need to be able to read the console config files.  These files are, by
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9fbface..9eb35e0 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ bacula (5.2.6+dfsg-4) unstable; urgency=high
     + Add build-depends for LZO support.
   * debian/rules:
     + Cleanup list of linked libraries.
+  * debian/README.Debian:
+    + Add information about file daemon without root privileges.
 
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