rsync: future of the --server option

[tim.conway at philips.com]

Hehe... gotcha.  --server and --sender are undocumented because they are 
commands used by the initiating rsync to cause the called rsync behave as 
a slave.  --daemon IS documented well enough, though it's meaningless 
unless you also read the (also very good) rsyncd.conf documentation.

The message you were reading was about a special application, not normal 
usage. 


Tim Conway
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"Martin A. Brown" <mabrown at securepipe.com>
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01/24/2002 02:33 PM

 
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        Subject:        rsync: future of the --server option
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Hello list members,

I notice here that the --server option is listed as undocumented.

                 http://rsync.samba.org/rsync/fom-serve/cache/88.html

My question is that the --server option is not documented, and I'd like
not to build functionality into one of my systems without trusting that it
will be there in the future.

I was able to find the --server option simply by watching the rsync
entries in the process table when I did not use the command restrictions
for the DSA key.  I, however, would very much like to use belt and
suspenders:  I would like to restrict access to this DSA key and also
restrict this DSA key to this individual rsync command.

I have been able to make rsync do my bidding by calling...here's a snippet
of my .ssh/authorized_keys2 file:

command="/usr/bin/rsync --quiet --delete --links --perms --recursive \
   --server /home/mabrown/miccawillow/" ssh-dss AAAA....

For now, I'm happy to continue using the version of rsync I am using
(rsync-2.4.6) as I have been very happy with it.  I would like to know
what the development plan includes for the undocumented --server option
(and the --sender option, too I guess).

Thanks for a great product.

-Martin

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Martin A. Brown --- SecurePipe, Inc. --- mabrown at securepipe.com