Re: Root access over ssh?

[Jim Salter]

There are any number of reasons you might still need or want rsync to 
run as root.  For one, if you're rsyncing *to* the remote machine rather 
than *from* it, you might want to preserve access times, permissions, 
and ownerships - and you've got to be root on the remote system in order 
to do that; otherwise you get stuck with everything being owned by you 
and datestamped with the current time (which among other things will 
prevent your properly being able to use datestamp at a later date to 
determine which files and directories need updating when you rsync again).

You might also be planning on moving lots of users' files, which a 
non-root account might not be able to access in the directories on the 
remote end.

Jim Salter
JRS Systems
Brian Chase wrote:

I'm not the command line guru, but it is my understanding that if you've 
got rsyncd running at boot time, any user can rsync over ssh to his or 
her home directories without requiring root access.

I can't imagine a time when you'd need them to access other directories, 
except maybe /var/html and subs, but if you do, symbolic links and a few 
chmod's might be in order to accomplish this.

Hope to hear more from others on this to either confirm or rebuke my 
assertions.

Regards,

BC

Paul Galbraith wrote:

Is it possible to configure rsync in server mode, to gain access to 
root protected files, without the user having to log in as root 
through ssh?

I'd prefer to login as a regular user through ssh and access an rysnc 
server on the host that's running as root.  As far as I can tell, 
however, that's not possible...am I wrong?



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