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

[Keith Edmunds]

Mike Bydalek wrote:
> I suppose I *could* do a mkdir -p, but it just seems redundant to do.

I didn't mean to suggest that you should manually create directories - 
as you say, that's the whole point of this switch in rdiff-backup. That 
said, this option is very simply implemented, and I can see no reason 
why user X shoudl be able to successfully create multiple directory 
paths in one go using 'mkdir' but not using 'os.makedirs' in Python.

Please try this whilst logged into the backup server *as the user who 
runs rdiff-backup* - let me stress, it MUST be as the user who 
experienced the original problem ("backupuser" in your original posting):

$ 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".

Keith

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