Hey All, After RTM, web page and searching the archives, I felt it worth a shot at mailing the list with my query.
I am looking at using rsync and various third party GUI's (rsyncX, nasbackup) to backup our departmental desktops to our nice new multi-terabyte fileserver. When we run rsync in daemon mode, it of course runs as nobody:nogroup and I am aware of being able to set that to any other given user. But we want to backup the users desktops to their home directory on the server, /home/user1, /home/user2 which are of course owned by user1 and user2. When we rsync to this the rsync daemon running as nobody cannot write to the home directories. So I have two problems, how do i get rsync to take on the permissions of the user uploading their backup ? And how do I configure rsyncd.conf to create "home" modules per user ? ATM we have a [homes] which points to /home, but we are only relying on file permissions to restrict users to their directory, ( or would if permissions were being set to the right user at login) can we do a samba style homes config ? -Michael Carmody Dept of Microbiology and Immunology The University of Melbourne -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
