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minor rewrite to make it less confusing (get rid of "Avoid to create a mixup") (#5490)

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docs: permissions note rewritten to make it less confusing

Original wording was confusing "Avoid to create a mixup of users and permissions in your repository (or cache)." is not clear, what should be avoided?

Also implement some feedback of @jdchristensen.

Co-authored-by: Thomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de>
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Important note about permissions
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Using root likely will be required if you want to backup files of other users
or the operating system. If you only back up your own files, you neither need
nor want to use root.
To avoid permissions issues (in your borg repository or borg cache), **always
access the repository using the same user account**.
Avoid to create a mixup of users and permissions in your repository (or cache).
If you want to backup files of other users or the operating system, running
borg as root likely will be required (otherwise you'ld get `Permission denied`
errors).
If you only back up your own files, you neither need nor want to run borg as
root, just run it as your normal user.
This can easily happen if you run borg using different user accounts (e.g. your
non-privileged user and root) while accessing the same repo.
Of course, a non-root user will have no permission to work with the files
created by root (or another user) and borg operations will just fail with
`Permission denied`.
The easy way to avoid this is to always access the repo as the same user:
For a local repository just always invoke borg as same user.
For a local repository just always use the same user to invoke borg.
For a remote repository: always use e.g. borg@remote_host. You can use this
from different local users, the remote user accessing the repo will always be
borg.
from different local users, the remote user running borg and accessing the
repo will always be `borg`.
If you need to access a local repository from different users, you can use the
same method by using ssh to borg@localhost.