[csw-maintainers] write access to tape devices

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Darin Perusich's message of Tue May 03 08:14:44 -0400 2011:

Hi Darin,

> Having the bacula user in the 'sys' group should be all that's
> necessary to write to the tape devices and read the disk device,
> this is the case for Amanda, but if you're using something outside
> of ufsdump/ufsrestore you'll hit permissions issues. For Amanda
> there are some RBAC rules that need to be set for taking ZFS
> snapshots and stuff. You'll need to take a look at the Amanda
> package or my build scripts to get the details. I'm not managing
> Solaris systems anymore so I don't recall the specifics.

Thanks for this info.  I'll look at amanda and get the RBAC changes
integrated into bacula too.

Thanks!
-Ben
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