[Rdiff-backup-bugs] [bug #25684] Lost ownership data even when using --preserve-numerical-ids option

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #25684 (project rdiff-backup):

As Chris Wilson says because he has time to write this paragraph:

"As Damon Timm pointed out, preserving any kind of ownership does not work
when you run the restore as a non-root user. Unix does not allow non-root
users (including rdiff-backup when run on your behalf) to change the owner of
files. They will always be owned by the user that you are running as. If you
run the restore as root, then ownership should be preserved either by name or
by UID."

I've try with the tests done before as root, and they work fine. So its clear
that this is not a bug on rdiff-backup, just a security related feature of
UNiX systems.



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