Re: Security issues when rsyncing directories as root

2018-10-18 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
Use rrsync. It comes with rsync (some silly Linux distros install it as documentation instead of a helper script so you have to decompress it and chmod +x it). It is a perl script with all the documentation in the comments. Yes, it can be done with rsyncd as you described. The rsyncd.conf file

Security issues when rsyncing directories as root

2018-10-18 Thread Marc Haber via rsync
Hi, I am using rsync to keep two directores on two servers in sync. Machine A, the "client" is the one where the rsync process is invoked, which then logs into Machine B, the "server" as root with ssh and a key. The key is restricted in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys to a script that checks wither