Thank you for the prompt and clear reply. That should settle the matter.
At 02:41 19/09/02 -0700, you wrote: >On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:02:18AM +0100, Riq Willitts wrote: > > I am using rsync 2.5.5 running as a daemon on the destination system, > which > > is SuSE Linux 8.0. The source system is SuSE 7.3, also with rsync 2.5.5. > > With the default 'use chroot = true' and not using --numeric-ids, I get > > the wrong user names on the destination files. I have tracked this > down to > > getpwnam() failing to return the user name from the passwd file. It does > > not fail when chroot() is not called ( by setting 'use chroot = false' in > > rsyncd.conf). > > > > A simple test program calling chroot() followed by getpwnam() shows the > > same effect, so the problem is not really in rsync. > > > > As I wasted quite a lot of time discovering this, it could be helpful to > > put a warning in the documentation of rsync. > > > > For some reason errno is zero on return from getpwnam() in the above case, > > although in my test program it is set to 29 (no such file or > directory). It > > would therefore not be very useful to test errno in the rsync code. > >Because too many people no longer seemed to understand the >implications of chroot this has already been done in CVS. > >The rsyncd.conf.5 manpage specifically mentions this under the >"use chroot" directive. > > it has the disadvantages of ... implying the > --numeric-ids option because /etc/passwd becomes > inaccessible. > >It is also specified in rsync.1 under --owner > > On most systems, only the super-user can set file > ownership. Note that if the remote system is a > daemon using chroot, the --numeric-ids option is > implied because the remote system cannot get access > to the usernames from /etc/passwd. > >And again under --numeric-ids > >The bases are pretty well covered. Thanks for the thought. > >It just hasn't yet made it into a released version. Once it >is it will take a few months to get into the packaged >distributions. > > > >-- >________________________________________________________________ > J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies > email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Remember Cernan and Schmitt >-- >To unsubscribe or change options: >http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync >Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Regards Riq Willitts Technical Director Scientific Computing Service Ltd. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
