Bug 202253

Summary:	sys-fs/xfsdump installs in /usr/bin but can't be ran by users
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-12-14 13:36:31 UTC

As per summary.

The users get to see commands that they should not run at all.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-01-26 21:59:54 UTC

xfsdump could be run on regular files ... but in general, it's supposed to be an admin utility

what utilities are you talking about exactly ?  some of them are fine for non-root users (like xfs_estimate)

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-02-23 04:26:29 UTC

get back to me ... i'd also point out, upstream creates those symlinks in the bin dir on purpose ...

Comment 3 Robin Johnson archtester

2008-02-23 05:45:25 UTC

xfsdump can be run by any user in the 'disk' group, which encompasses most backup tools. (Amanda for example can run without root access if you use dump/xfsdump for backups).