Re: [rdiff-backup-users] bug?: uid of symlinks restored incorrectly

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Naoki Takebayashi <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:39:13 -0800 (AKDT)

> Actually, the owner of all symlinks get set to root after "restore",
> regardless of the original owner of the target of the symlinks.  In
> other words, this happens even if the owner of the target file
> (e.g. /home/joe/.bashrc) is 'joe'.

I think at the moment rdiff-backup may ignore the uid/gid of symlinks,
since as far as I know they are not used for anything (as security
controls they are meaningless).

> On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> > Do you have something that explicitly relies upon the owner/group
> > of symlinks (eg, a find(1) script or similar)?

Yes why would you want symlink uid/gid preserved?  For a script like
Keith suggests?


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Ben Escoto