gnc-backend-file.c: ERR_BACKEND_PERM too unspecific

[Derek Atkins]

Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu> writes:

> There may be cases where that assumption is not correct, I think.  For
> the general case, and to err on the side of caution, it's probably best
> to set all of owner, group, mode, and ACL attributes.  If ACL is not
> being dealt with by the application, and the administrator wants to use
> them, then I suppose they can be set for the directory...?

chown() requires root permissions.  You cannot set the owner from a
non-suid program.  Gnucash is not setuid (and shouldn't be setuid!),
so we cannot chown() the file.  We can still chgrp the file, and we
do so now.

-derek

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