C Falconer is on permanent record as saying: : :Hence my comment "which *could* be done as non-root" : :For example... I don't want a non-root user to have read access to my :directories for backups... but it doesn't require root. Also, I don't :think log files should be world-readable, for privacy reasons.
create a user named backup, with no shell, or restricted however it needs to be (depending on how you're doing your backups). This can be put in /etc/crontab as a user entry or use "sudo backup; crontab -e". Depending on how your system is configured, you might have to give user backup permission to run cron jobs. Greg --- -
