From: benny@crocodial.de (Benjamin Riefenstahl) Subject: Re: amanda port & tar question 26 May 1998 17:38:57 -0700 Message-ID: <356A942C.301057C.cygnus.gnu-win32@crocodial.de> References: <199805251604.SAA16513@guenda.cli.di.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: Enrico Bernardini Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Hi Enrico, Enrico Bernardini wrote: > I modified the sources of tar-1.12 to enable the Backup Privilege. I could > backup regardless file permissions. Now, tar can backup the readable > files inside a "locked" directory, and I can see (with Event Viewer) > the Backup Privilege set. In addition to getting the backup privilege an application would need to specify the FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS flag to the file open API (CreatFile()). Otherwise the backup privilege would just have been a synonym for "all access" on all operations. Now how to get tar to set this flag on file/dir opens, I don't know. so long, benny ====================================== Benjamin Riefenstahl (benny@crocodial.de) Crocodial Communications EntwicklungsGmbH Ruhrstraße 61, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".