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+# Policy §10.9 wants 0755 or 2770 but since secrets could be stored there
+# we want this only accessed by root, and optionally by the "admingroup"
+# defined in backupninja.conf
+non-standard-dir-perm etc/backup.d/ 2770 != 0755