Travis, We also use rsync to push our files. While there are several users with the ability to do the push, the files on the webserver host are set with su-gid bit set.
No matter which of our web people push the files to the visible server the files all move to a consistent groupship that allows the other users to replace them later. You may do something similar with your setup, the webserver group being in the same group as your webmaster(s)', at least on the receiving end of things. Are files on webserver are 775 and directories 1775 and we are less concerned about the owner of the file than the group of the file. YMMV Brian On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:18:11AM -0700, travis+ml-rs...@subspacefield.org wrote: > I often push files from my user account over SSH to my web server, and > want them owned by www-user, which may not have a login shell, should > never accept remote logins, and who may not have a ~/.ssh directory > (and if it did, it would be under the wwwroot, ack!). > > Currently I push as root and then do a chmod, but isn't there a better > way? While I'm doing this, the files are temporarily unavailable, since > they aren't readable by www-user as they exist on the local system. > -- > A Weapon of Mass Construction > My emails do not have attachments; it's a digital signature that your mail > program doesn't understand. | http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/ > If you are a spammer, please email j...@subspacefield.org to get blacklisted. > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
