[sclug] root-like read-all but not write ability?

[John Stumbles]

A backup program I'm writing needs to be able to read all files and 
traverse all directories on the system (as root can do) but it would be 
nice if it didn't have to be trusted with root's write privileges, since 
it doesn't need them. I suspect this is one of those wouldn't-it-be-nice 
things that aren't actually possible, but maybe I'm missing something?

It's writ in Perl, fwiw

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John Stumbles