ownership of index file generated by fbackup

[Diane Cardone]

When using the fbackup command I am creating an index file using -I, but once the file is generated it can only be read by root because the ownership/permissions on the file are root:sys rw--------. Is there any way to change this?

Thanks.
DKM

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

I haven't tried this, but maybe you can:

touch /pathof/indexfile
chmod 666 /pathof/indexfile
fbackup

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[Diane Cardone]

I guess my real problem lies in the fact that I am running fbackup within a script that is not run as root, so if I try to change the ownership it won't allow me to.

DKM

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I'm not on a box that I can test this against at the moment but I know that fbackup is not a setuid program; thus the file should be owned by the creator. I suspect that you have an existing index files; change the ownership and permission of that existing file (or remove the file itself) and then run your fbackup.

You might also need to set a less restictive umask within your backup script before fbackup is invoked.

[harry d brown jr]

The script can change the permissions:

chmod 666 /pathto/indexfile

Then any user can read/write it, if you only need read for others, then:

chmod 644 /pathto/indexfile

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harry

[Diane Cardone]

Harry,
I tried your suggestion for creating the file before executing the fbackup and that worked fine.

Thanks very much.

[harry d brown jr]

Diane,

Glad to be of service, especially on a Sunday.

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