On my server that I want backed up, I do not want to SSH into it as root, so
I've set up a special user that has an entry in /etc/sudoers to run *only*
the rdiff-backup command on the host with superuser privileges:
Cmnd_Alias RDIFFBACKUP = /usr/bin/rdiff-backup
rdiff-backup ALL = NOPASSWD: RDIFFBACKUP
...everything else about the user is normal. Now for any file that does not
have the chmod o+r (readable by "other") attribute I get this error when
trying to back it up:
ListError filename [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/path/to/filename'
The file permissions could look only like -------r-- and that would work, in
any other way, without the "r" for "other" I get the error. When I perform
backups logging in as root, backups are made fine.
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