Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:40:25 +0000 From: Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> To: user <user@dhp.com> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how should I (best practice) set up permissions for rsync ? Message-ID: <1137001225.4076.16.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0601102128120.8684-100000@shell.dhp.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0601102128120.8684-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 03:47, user wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I want to rsync /usr/home from one machine to another, for purposes of > > > backup. > > > > > > > i do: > > > > rsync -e "rsh" -avzrlHpogDtS --delete --delete-excluded --force > > \ --exclude-from=../$1-exclude root@$1:/ . > > > > where $1 is server name > > > Yeah ... I know how to do that ... I wasn't asking how to rsync it, I was > asking how I could: > > a) keep remote root logins _disabled_ > > and > > b) keep default freebsd permissions on the /usr/home directory > > and still do the rsync ... in your example, you are remotely logging in as > root, which I want to avoid. > > Any suggestions ? If you don't want to log on as root, then you can run a rsync as each user as say a user cron job. Just a thought Rob
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