Re: [rdiff-backup-users] os.makedirs Security Violation

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Mike Bydalek <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:14:09 -0700
> > $ python
> > >>> import os
> > >>> os.makedirs('/home/mbydalek/x/y/z')
> > >>> ^D
> >
> > ...and let me know what happens. You can remove the superflous 
> > directories after with "rm -r /home/mbydalek/x".
> Since I am doing it relative to backupuser's home directory, I left out 
> the first /.  That said, the code above worked just fine.

The "security violation" is raised by rdiff-backup's internal security
scheme.  Recently (v1.0.0?) a hole was plugged in it, and as an
unintended consequence some options like --create-full-path may now
cause false positives.

Please run rdiff-backup again with -v7 and post all the traceback
information it spews before the crash.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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