feature request: "remote user is root, make remote owner is foo"

[Brian Cuttler]

Travis,

As a matter of principle, SOP, we don't like to ssh/rsync as root
and generally don't allow root ssh/rsync into a box. Better/safer
to move the security stuff to a lower powered user if you can.



On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:18:11AM -0700, travis+ml-rsync at subspacefield.org wrote:
> I often push files from my user account over SSH to my web server, and
> want them owned by www-user, which may not have a login shell, should
> never accept remote logins, and who may not have a ~/.ssh directory
> (and if it did, it would be under the wwwroot, ack!).
> 
> Currently I push as root and then do a chmod, but isn't there a better
> way?  While I'm doing this, the files are temporarily unavailable, since
> they aren't readable by www-user as they exist on the local system.
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