Re: [rdiff-backup-users] User/Group Permissions Question - IS THIS A BUG?

[Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso]

Damon Timm escribió:
> Although this doesn't address the --preserve-numberical-ids issue ...
> What I am doing for now, is backing up using root -- which *does*
> preserve the correct user:group name of the files (rather than when I
> backup as just an ordinary user ... which changes the user:group to
> the ordinary user and doesn't preserve) ... then, for now anyway, I am
> just doing:
>
> find /path/rdiff-backup-data/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
> find /path/rdiff-backup-data/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
>
> This brings in read permissions and archfs seems to work okay ... I am
> less concerned, I guess, about restoring the exact permissions of the
> file ... that seems easy enough to fix.  
Unfortunatly it doesn't seem to be easy, as regular users cannot change
owner. Enabling suid bit on /usr/bin/rdiff-backup will not work neither,
as scripts cannot run on suid mode, so I do not see easy solution for this.
> For me, the convenience of
> being able to browse with an archfs mount certainly outweighs
> everything else.
>
> Am interested to see what comes of Francisco's investigations!
>
> Damon
>