>>>>> On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:48:46 +0100, Kern Sibbald said:
> 
> On Friday 24 December 2010 12:54:00 Martin Simmons wrote:
> 
> > For security reasons, only the owner can read the .gvfs directory, so the
> > bacula-fd gets ERR=Permission denied when it runs as root.
> 
> Interesting, so root is no longer totally powerful.  Hmmm.

The gvfs filesystem is implemented with fuse, which allows this kind of
restriction.

Of course there are other things like SELinux and FreeBSD Mandatory Access
Control that can restrain the power of root too.

__Martin

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