From 06598d00acf7a679535cda1094f6c49c785d008a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: david <david@socialnerds.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:09:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] made root privileges optional

---
 sshbackup | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sshbackup b/sshbackup
index 14c4b5d..80924c0 100755
--- a/sshbackup
+++ b/sshbackup
@@ -79,8 +79,9 @@ preflight()
 {
     #amiroot?
     if ( ! amiroot ); then
-        echo "aborting mission. you must be root"
-        return 1
+        echo "warning: in order to conserve owner and group attributes"
+        echo "warning: you need to run sshbackup as root."
+        return 0
     fi
 
     #source and destination path?