On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:04:16AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: > Try `su' to your user on that system and try to `ls -lR' those dirs, > I suppose he won't be able to do that. > > j.
Thanks Jiri. Indeed he can't. I've looked at this closer and I found out that on some machines dump doesn't give any error even though the user 'backup' can't list the contents of the folder: $ whoami backup $ ls -lhd /var/audit drwxrws--- 2 root wheel 512B Mar 13 2013 /var/audit $ ls -lhR /var/audit ls: audit: Permission denied The difference I found between those machines is the partition layout. Machine with no errors: $ mount /dev/sd0a on / type ffs (local) /dev/sd0g on /home type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/sd0d on /tmp type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/sd0f on /usr type ffs (local, nodev) /dev/sd0e on /var type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) Machine with errors: $ mount /dev/sd0a on / type ffs (local) So the difference is that when '/var' is a real partition, dump doesn't complain at all. Does this make sense?
