[rdiff-backup-users]

[stanlin]

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Hi Andrew,

Thanks for replying. I have the latest rdiffbackup (1.0.5) and librsync 
(0.9.7). Any ideas?

It seems to be that rdiff or python is deciding to set some unusual 
permissions. To give you more info, I just found out that this 'None' user is a 
red herring. The real symptom is the following:

I can manually create files in the same cygwin session (e.g. 'touch file.txt') 
and they inherit the permissions I would expect. However, when I attempt a 
backup in a folder with normal security, the backup fails with the mentioned 
error. When I inspect the folder, I find that the Windows permissions have 
changed; now even though the destination folder is still owned by my user, no 
one (including that user) has any read or write permissions when I look at the 
Windows folder security. Cygwin tells me the folder looks like this:

d---------+  2 stan           None           4096 Jul 17 03:04 backup

but this isn't that helpful because even my accessible folders display these 
same unix ACLs.

Thanks,
Stan

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