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Subject: Re: Mounting FS read-only for specific user (or root)
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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