You could use sudo to grant your backup user the required rights to read
those files.
==> /etc/sudoers
backupuser ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rsync
I, the point is that I don't want to give my script root privilege. Too
much harm can be done using root privileges for simple task as backups.
This is why I included user "backup" into "vmail" group and changed all
files/dir under mail_location to be read by "vmail" group. However, new
user account are created with 0700 permissions, and that clearly break
my backup.
I understand that the solution can be as simple as to do a chmod g+X
before to run the backup, but I wander _how_ can be possibile to select
the umask/permissions of new accounts under dovecot...
Thanks.
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