Re: [rdiff-backup-users] os.makedirs Security Violation

[Mike Bydalek]

Keith Edmunds wrote:
> Mike Bydalek wrote:
> > I suppose I *could* do a mkdir -p, but it just seems redundant to do.
>
> Please try this whilst logged into the backup server *as the user who 
> runs rdiff-backup* - let me stress, it MUST be as the user who 
> experienced the original problem ("backupuser" in your original posting):
>
> $ python
> >>> import os
> >>> os.makedirs('/home/mbydalek/x/y/z')
> >>> ^D
>
> ...and let me know what happens. You can remove the superflous 
> directories after with "rm -r /home/mbydalek/x".
Since I am doing it relative to backupuser's home directory, I left out 
the first /.  That said, the code above worked just fine.

-Mike