You da boss. And thanks for looking into this, it'll save other folks heartache in the future.
Scott Dave Dykstra wrote: >On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 05:11:40PM -0400, pyxl wrote: > >>Well, >> >>Looking at the source for 2.5.5, I'm only seeing mention of it under the >>--numeric-ids flag in rsync(1); --owner doesn't make mention of it at all. >>What you quoted must be in CVS (I'd look, but I don't know how to do a >>remote CVS checkout yet, and am too lazy to learn at this moment). >> > >I researched it at > http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/rsync/rsync.yo > >and see that it was taken out of the --owner item in rsync 2.5.1 by change >1.86: > http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/rsync/rsync.yo.diff?r1=1.85&r2=1.86 > >That patch had many wording changes to the man page, suggested by somebody >from the community, and I think it was wrong to drop this info. I will >fix it for the next release, but I don't want to use your suggested wording >because I don't want to make it sound like we're recommending that people >do "use chroot = no"; instead, I will just inform them of the consequences. > >- Dave Dykstra > > > >>Here's a patch for the changes to those man pages against the 2.5.5 release >>tree. It changes --owner in rsync(1) and "use chroot" in rsyncd.conf(5). >> >>diff -uNr rsync-2.5.5/rsync.1 rsync-2.5.5_update/rsync.1 >>--- rsync-2.5.5/rsync.1 Wed Feb 6 16:21:19 2002 >>+++ rsync-2.5.5_update/rsync.1 Tue Jun 25 16:28:52 2002 >>@@ -488,7 +488,9 @@ >>.IP "\fB-o, --owner\fP" >>This option causes rsync to set the owner of the >>destination file to be the same as the source file\&. On most systems, >>-only the super-user can set file ownership\&. >>+only the super-user can set file ownership\&. For this to work when one >>+side is an rsync daemon, the module must be configured with "use chroot = >>no" >>+or else only numeric uid and gid will be provided\&. >>.IP >>.IP "\fB-g, --group\fP" >>This option causes rsync to set the group of the >>diff -uNr rsync-2.5.5/rsyncd.conf.5 rsync-2.5.5_update/rsyncd.conf.5 >>--- rsync-2.5.5/rsyncd.conf.5 Fri Aug 31 04:12:35 2001 >>+++ rsync-2.5.5_update/rsyncd.conf.5 Tue Jun 25 16:46:51 2002 >>@@ -144,7 +144,9 @@ >>of not being able to follow symbolic links outside of the new root path >>when reading\&. When "use chroot" is false, for security reasons >>symlinks may only be relative paths pointing to other files within the >>-root path, and leading slashes are removed from absolute paths\&. The >>+root path, and leading slashes are removed from absolute paths\&. Note >>+that for --owner (-o) and --group (-g) client side options to function, >>+"use chroot" must be set to false for the module\&. The >>default for "use chroot" is true\&. >>.IP >>.IP "\fBmax connections\fP" >> > > -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
