| To: | Johan Bengtsson <johanb@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: root and xfsdump. |
| From: | Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:26:14 -0500 |
| Cc: | linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | Message from Johan Bengtsson <johanb@docs.uu.se> of "Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:17:59 +0200." <15191.2103.377219.94936@veda.it.uu.se> |
| Sender: | owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
> > Hi, > I noticed that xfsdump insist on being run only by root. > Would things break if it was run by a normal user, given that this > user can read the disk device? > > / Johan xfsdump writes an inventory file out to /var/xfsdump/inventory/ this would fail if you were not root - unless you opened up permissions in there. There is a -J option which may surpress writing to this directory, I only read the man page, not the code. Steve |
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