Re: Rsync pairing

2012-06-26 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
On 26.06.2012 14:18, András Porjesz wrote: > Hi all, > I have an rsyncd installed on a host and I want to use it from a lot of > clients. This rsync is not invoked directly but there is a shell script > wrapper co set up parameters and environment. > My problem is that I do not want to allow any

RE: Rsync pairing

2012-06-26 Thread András Porjesz
Hi Greg, thanks, but actually they donwloaded an rsync from somewhere and started to use it Andras From: greg@gmail.com [mailto:greg@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Greg Deback (rsync) Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 14:44 To: András Porjesz Cc: rsync@lists.sa

Re: Rsync pairing

2012-06-26 Thread Greg Deback (rsync)
Okay, then you can do the following : - create a dedicated group "rsync" - chown/chmod /bin/rsync for that group only - add a setgid to your script with that group - use IP control in the rsyncd.conf to restrict users Thus only allowed users can access the script, and only the script can launch rsy

Re: Rsync pairing

2012-06-26 Thread Greg Deback (rsync)
And you can also restrict users given their IPs : Add at the top of the rsyncd.conf "hosts allow = 10.42.20.43/32" Greg On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Greg Deback (rsync) < greg.deb+rs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > You could simply create a dedicated group, set up permissions to your > script

RE: Rsync pairing

2012-06-26 Thread András Porjesz
Hi, thanks, but actually the same users want to use rsync without the wrapper and it will cause inproper transfer. Andras From: greg@gmail.com [mailto:greg@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Greg Deback (rsync) Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 14:38 To: András Porjesz

Re: Rsync pairing

2012-06-26 Thread Greg Deback (rsync)
Hello, You could simply create a dedicated group, set up permissions to your script, and add only the desired remote users to that group. Greg On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:18 PM, András Porjesz wrote: > Hi all, > I have an rsyncd installed on a host and I want to use it from a lot of > clients. Thi

Rsync pairing

2012-06-26 Thread András Porjesz
Hi all, I have an rsyncd installed on a host and I want to use it from a lot of clients. This rsync is not invoked directly but there is a shell script wrapper co set up parameters and environment. My problem is that I do not want to allow any other rsync to be able to connect to the daemon. Is

[Bug 8990] It might be nice to make --append-verify also transfer non-appending files

2012-06-26 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8990 --- Comment #2 from Matt A 2012-06-26 08:07:39 UTC --- (In reply to comment #1) > Thus, it is assumed that if you are using --append (or --append-verify) that > you have narrowed down your transfer list to just files that need to be > appended and