RE: [rdiff-backup-users] restore by non-root users

[breisfel]

>===== Original Message From Ben Escoto <address@hidden> =====
>
>Yes, if you just change the permissions and/or ownership of
>rdiff-backup-data and any desired subdirectories, it should work.
>There is a complication though: suppose user A owns directory /foo at
>time 1 and B owns it at time 2.  Who owns the
>rdiff-backup-data/increments/foo subdir?  Either way one A or B is
>going to see which files the other had.  Of course in some
>circumstances (e.g. a user's home directory) this may not arise.  Oh,
>and if you give the user his/her backup directory the user might screw
>it up - it would be best if you made it read-only somehow.
>
>

Thanks for the advice. I'll try to come up with some coherent strategy to 
address the issues you raised.

By the way, thank you (and other contributors) for rdiff-backup. It's proving 
to be very useful to my group. It's also another good example of the use of 
Python to create a 'real' application.

-Brad

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