On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Wendy Alberg wrote:

> This is exactly how ADSM works. I haven't found a reference that
> says explicitly that this is how it works, but check out p. 244-248
> in the ADSM R2 UNIX User's Guide and Reference where it talks
> about authorizing other users to restore or retrieve your files
> and restoring or retrieving other users' files. It implies there
> that users can only get to files they own unless other users
> explicitly give them access to the other users' files. And I
> know it works this way on our unix systems: by default you can
> only access your own files.

Then I made a mistake. We have tested this several times.
Using the dsm GUI, user_b was able to restore files from
/home/user_a into his own home directory without being
explicitly authorized. We are running scheduled incremental
backups of the user's home directories every night.
So, what are we doing wrong?


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