I'll have to do as Bill suggested and add a lower priority run script to change the directory perms to 755. That seems like my best option. Thanks to all.
-Chris On Sat, 22 Oct 2022, 12:31 pm Charles Tassell, <ctass...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, with directory permissions execute means access, read means you can > list files in the directory. So read doesn't work without execute. > > On 2022-10-22 06:36, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > My user is a member of the tape group but gets permission denied error > ls'ing the directory. The directory is 740 and the files within 640. I > thought that should work but obviously there's something I'm not > understanding correctly about how nix permissions work. Not a bacula > question really i know. > > It appears I need at least 750 or +x on the directory. > > Chris > > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2022, 11:58 pm Bill Arlofski, <w...@protonmail.com> wrote: > >> On 10/20/22 16:15, Chris Wilkinson wrote: >> > Thanks for digging this out of the sources, I don't know Bacula well >> enough to have done that. It seems a wierd choice to >> > hardcode that. I compiled from source as it's on Raspian64 so I could >> patch and rebuild as you suggest. There may be more to >> > it than the files you found. Not sure about the cron trick as it would >> be asynchronous to backups possibly creating races. >> > >> > Do you think this qualifies as a bug or just an annoyance? Probably the >> latter as it doesn't affect as designed functionality. >> >> It was a design choice for sure. No one besides the bacula-sd daemon, >> running as bacula should really have access to your >> backup volumes. >> >> Another work around for your issue could be to add the user(s) who need >> to read these volumes to the 'tape' group. This is >> the more *nix way I would say, and it avoids any possible race conditions >> you described. >> >> Finally, if chmod'ing is an OK option but only if no backup jobs are >> running, y >> ou can create a Bacula Admin job that runs a >> script that does this. Just set the Admin job's priority to a lower >> priority (higher number) than your backup jobs and it >> will run when all backup jobs have finished. >> >> >> Hope this helps! >> Bill >> >> -- >> Bill Arlofski >> w...@protonmail.com >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing > listBacula-users@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >
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