Re: rsync 3.0 and rssh

2008-03-08 Thread Kaleb Pederson
David, If all you need is restricted rsync support, I might recommend the rrsync program that was just referenced. There are a few things that I worry about with it, which are basically configuration issues. If the users .ssh directory is within the files reachable and writable by the user, as

Re: --server combined with -e option

2008-03-07 Thread Kaleb Pederson
Perfect! Thank you. --Kaleb On Friday 07 March 2008, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:46:03PM -0800, Kaleb Pederson wrote: > > Is it safe to allow 'e' if '--server' is also present? > > Yes, that's completely safe.  See also the latest s

--server combined with -e option

2008-03-06 Thread Kaleb Pederson
In the past, I had restricted rsync so that the -e option was disallowed. As of rsync-3.0.0, I'm now seeing the following requests being made (on the server side): rsync --server -vlogDtprze.iL . I want to prevent '-e' as a client side option so arbitrary programs can't be executed. I found t

Re: --delete causes rsync failure

2007-11-14 Thread Kaleb Pederson
on <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 11:46:06PM -0800, Kaleb Pederson wrote: > > rsync --server -vvlogDtpr --backup-dir backup_target --delete . > > You'll note that rsync said it was using "--delete" as a backup > directory. That means that

--delete causes rsync failure

2007-11-12 Thread Kaleb Pederson
Hello, I just narrowed down an rsync command that keeps failing to the --delete flag: rsync -vv --delete --backup-dir=backup_target --archive /etc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It gives the following output: ... backup_dir is --delete/ building file list ... done Invalid file index: 1868985864 (count=0) [