[rdiff-backup-users] Problem with permissions when doing backup.

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

When doing backup from user backup with rdiff-backup-0.12.3-1 over network 
(ssh) I got:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 246, in 
Main
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 219, in 
take_action
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 260, in 
Backup
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 47, in 
Mirror_and_increment
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 207, in 
patch_and_increment
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line 181, 
in FillInIter
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/iterfile.py", line 364, 
in next
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/iterfile.py", line 401, 
in _get
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 
492, in read
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 
424, in __call__
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 
346, in reval
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
'/home/services/rdiff-backup/gucio/home/virtualki/4678/wc2002/skl/.mai'
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/home/services/rdiff-backup/gucio/home/rdiff-backup-data/file_statistics.2003-08-18T01:05:48+02:00.data.gz',
 
mode 'wb' at 0x406c1820 0x406cc6ac>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/home/services/rdiff-backup/gucio/home/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2003-08-18T01:05:48+02:00.data.gz',
 
mode 'wb' at 0x404abb60 0x406cc6ec>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in <bound 
method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/home/services/rdiff-backup/gucio/home/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2003-08-18T01:05:48+02:00.snapshot.gz',
 
mode 'wb' at 0x406c17e0 0x406cc86c>> ignored

OError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
'/home/services/rdiff-backup/gucio/home/virtualki/4678/wc2002/skl/.mai'

File permission are:
--w--wx-w-    1 backups  backups        40 2003-08-16 13:27 
/home/services/rdiff-backup/gucio/home/virtualki/4678/wc2002/skl/.mai

Remote rdiff-backup has root priviledges (via limited sudo command).

It should set proper permissions locally, write or do something else and then 
restore original permissions. It seems that +r is needed here :/

Both servers are running Linux 2.4 kernels.

ps . patch fixing this issue (for testing) welcome.
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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz    CS at FoE, Wroclaw University of Technology
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