Re: chmod patch

2002-04-05 Thread tim . conway
How about setting up a seperate module for each user, with the uid set for that user, and before invoking rsyncd, du "umask 077", and have the users sync in WITHOUT -p (or -a, of course). Will the rsyncd then, as it's not using the source permissions, follow its umask? Tim Conway [EMAIL PROTE

Re: chmod patch

2002-04-04 Thread Martin Pool
On 5 Apr 2002, Diburim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If sending files, modify the mode before transmission. > I don't think it possible in windows environment (cygwin) > I'm backup lot of windows labtops and I want the user data to be > some how secure on the server. The status now is that t

Re: chmod patch

2002-04-04 Thread Diburim
Original Message - From: Martin Pool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:40 AM Subject: Re: chmod patch > I think --chmod can sensibly always be done locally, which will work > better when talking to old servers: > > If

Re: chmod patch

2002-04-04 Thread Martin Pool
I think --chmod can sensibly always be done locally, which will work better when talking to old servers: If sending files, modify the mode before transmission. If receiving files, modify the mode on receipt. Possibly the complexity of doing this twice in the code is not justified, but I thi

re: chmod patch

2002-04-03 Thread Martin Pool
That looks good. A couple of points: - You should put your own name in the copyright in the new files, and add the GPL boilerplate from one of the existing files. - You need to check whether the behavior with downlevel clients and servers will be acceptable. - Ideally there would b