On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Chris G wrote:
As I said I hardly matters as the command that needs to work is a backup command so anyone who can run the command can do just about anything they want - copy files, delete files, overwrite files, etc.
According to its manpage, super has the capability to restrict what arguments are given to a command as well as the command itself. I'm guessing sudo has similar functionality available, right?