[pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#699149: bacula-fd: should not run as 'root' by default

Mon Dec 1 18:05:35 UTC 2014

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:39:52 -0700, Teodor MICU wrote:

> The other Bacula services are started by 'bacula' user. Only bacula-fd
> is started as 'root'. However, I've just discovered that it can
> function properly with limited privileges too.

I'm guessing you aren't doing full system backups? Because running
bacula-fd as non-root means it cannot backup files with strict read
permissions (e.g. 400 and owned by another user).

Therefore it shouldn't be the default and the note in the README.Debian
suffices for those that want to deviate from that.