Hi all,

Quickly drawing attention to the PR below, which solves a permissions problem 
for us.

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/pull/751

We back up unix hosts, and the remote permissions are stored in attributes as 
per --fake-super, so far so good.

We also need to give people user level - not root - access to these backups, 
and this is currently impossible because the remote permissions stored in the 
attributes are also applied to the files themselves. The only way to get access 
to the backup files is to have root access to the backup box, which means you 
can destroy the backup box if you choose to.

The patch solves the problem by optionally only storing remote permissions in 
attributes, and leaving the actual backup file permissions to permissions that 
make sense on the backup box.

In other words, you can give read access to backups now.

Regards,
Graham
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