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List:       amanda-users
Subject:    Re: Portrange, port insecure, I'm very confuse...
From:       "John R. Jackson" <jrj () gandalf ! cc ! purdue ! edu>
Date:       2001-06-29 20:21:03
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>	I can't understood about portrange.  ...

You're not the only one :-).  It's pretty confusing.

I posted an overview of how Amanda uses ports to amanda-hackers last
week.  You might look in the archives for Subject "Use of UDP/TCP ports
in Amanda".

>If I choose an port < 1024, I have
>set user=root, and I don't want this. But if I choose an port > 1024,
>amdump complains 'port not secure'!!! So, I must set user=root??? What
>can I do? 

At the moment, you must set --with-portrange (the TCP ports) to values
greater than or equal to 1024.  You must set --with-udpportrange (the
UDP ports) to values less than 1024.

In addition, you'll need to set up your firewall/NAT to let both ranges
of ports through as is.

However, there is a bug in 2.4.2p2 that will cause amrecover to fail
in the above setup.  I'm working on a fix for that.

>---->SuLamItA GaRciA <----

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, jrj@purdue.edu

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