documentation bug for --daemon "use chroot" in conjunction with -o and -g

[pyxl]

Well, it's definitely not in either of the man pages - and those should 
be the canonical documentation of rsync's behavior.  But it's a small 
bug (with big teeth!).

Corey Stup wrote:

> pyxl wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> Tripped over a documentation bug.  I'm guessing the behavior I've 
>> found isn't a bug in itself as it's kind of implied by chroot (unless 
>> the /etc/passwd db is read *before* you do the chroot call), so I'm 
>> calling it a documentation bug.
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> I pointed out the same thing a few months ago.
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> I believe I was told that its in the documentation, I just needed to 
> know where to look.
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> The reason it fails is that if chroot is used, the system can no 
> longer access /etc/passwd (since / has changed)...
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> I spent hours adding debug and such all over the code to try and find 
> where it wasn't mapping the uid's.
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