Try the "uid" section of man rsyncd.conf. On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:50 AM, Sebastian Gabler <sequoiamo...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am trying to solve a problem that i have ignored for quite a long time. > The issue is that "messages" are flooded with rsync permission errors, and > that some files are not backed up properly. What I have found so far is the > following: > - rsyncd is running as "root" > -the issue is the same when rsync is invoked locally, or from a remote > host (I am running OI as a backup server calling other machines, OI and > Ubuntu as clients). The call usually is "rsync -azt --numeric-ids > --timeout=600 --port ..." > - the failing files all seem to have in common that there are no read > rights on the o- bits. (i.e. 2.5K -rw------- 1 root root ssh_host_rsa_key > file is faling consistently) > > I seem to be missing something really basic with the access rights here. > My understanding is that the access rights of the user running rsyncd on > the client will count. Naively, why would rsync running as root not read a > file root owns? Why is this going per o- permissions? > If I could make it go by the group at least, then still how could I solve > the other aspects, i.e. the rsync user reading files that are owned by > others like dladm:netadm? I understand as well that at least for the above > RSA key I don't want to have anybody else but owner read the file. Is there > still some RBAC trick or ACLs that could help me back up everything? > Once solved for OI, I will probably have to address the same on the linux > machines. > > Thanks for any hints, and sorry for the noob aspects of this matter if > there are any. > > Regards, > > Sebastian > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
