On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:05:28AM -0500, Tim Conway wrote:
> rsync notices that, and refuses to act like root unless it
> was invoked by a root-owned process.
FYI, the CVS version now acts like root if the effective UID is root, so
it will work in the situation where someone chooses to make it s
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Backing Up Files I Don't Own
Hi,
I need to back up all of /home on a remote server for which I have root
access but cannot (and will not) do root logins via ssh. Of course if I
attempt to rsync files that I don't own, rsync skips over them.
Hi,
I need to back up all of /home on a remote server for which I have root
access but cannot (and will not) do root logins via ssh. Of course if I
attempt to rsync files that I don't own, rsync skips over them. My account
is allowed to sudo, if that helps. How can I use rsync to do the followi
