Re: [rdiff-backup-users] setuid setgid increment files

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "AB" == Andrew K Bressen <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 14 May 2003 18:23:39 -0400

  AB> I noticed that some, but not all, of the "increments"
  AB> directories under my various rdiff-data directories, and some,
  AB> but not all, of the increments.<date>.dir files inside them,
  AB> were setuid or setgid.

  AB> Do they need to be? Is there a way to make them not be?

No, not as is, but it's a good suggestion.  Previously the permissions
of older directories were stored in those files, but the newer
versions write the file permissions into a central file also, so it's
not necessary any more to change the permissions of
increments.<date>.dir files.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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