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

[Brian Cuttler]

Travis,

We also use rsync to push our files. While there are several users with
the ability to do the push, the files on the webserver host are set with
su-gid bit set.

No matter which of our web people push the files to the visible
server the files all move to a consistent groupship that allows
the other users to replace them later.

You may do something similar with your setup, the webserver group
being in the same group as your webmaster(s)', at least on the receiving
end of things.

Are files on webserver are 775 and directories 1775 and we are less
concerned about the owner of the file than the group of the file.

YMMV

Brian


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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