Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:31:15 +0100 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Andrew Bradford <a-bb@gmx.net> Subject: Re: Mounting FS read-only for specific user (or root) Message-ID: <200802212131.16581.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <47BDD1D5.6060003@gmx.net> References: <47BCC9C6.9050501@gmx.net> <47BD3A0B.2030806@locolomo.org> <47BDD1D5.6060003@gmx.net>
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On Thursday 21 February 2008 20:32:37 Andrew Bradford wrote: > Erik Norgaard escribi=F3: > > I assume the reasoning for this is you want to preserve permissions > > and attributes on your backup, so you can't solve this simply by > > setting permissions appropriately. > > Yes, exactly. Users need to be able to see their own backups, and > nobody else's. Isn't this what acl's are for? See setfacl(8). I haven't looked into it in= =20 great detail but seems to me that if you make a subdir owned by the user fo= r=20 each backup root for that user and set the acl to only be accessible by use= r,=20 it should work. =2D-=20 Mel
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