Rsync permissions...

[tim.conway at philips.com]

You're right about the switches, but you're sending to a process running 
as 'nobody', which is the default for rsyncd, so no owner, no devices, and 
in this case, no group, unless you make nobody a member of all the groups. 
 In order to preserve ownerships, you'll have to run the rsync as root.
++++++++++insert somewhere inside module [home]+++++++++++++++++
uid = root
gid = root
+++++++++++++++++++++++++end insert++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
At least use a password.  Frankly, to do this, I'd suggest you use rsync 
over ssh transport, rather than over the rsync internal transport.

Tim Conway
tim.conway at philips.com
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Longmont, CO 80501
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"Brad" <rsyncuser at capstone.net.au>
Sent by: rsync-admin at lists.samba.org
03/22/2002 01:47 PM

 
        To:     "Rsync Mailing List" <rsync at lists.samba.org>
        cc:     (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS)
        Subject:        Rsync permissions...
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I am transferring some files from a RH7.0 machine to a RH7.2 machine as 
root
with a cron job, using the following:

rsync -avt /home homeserver::home
rsync -avt /etc homeserver::etc

Some of the files transfer OK, but I get:

building file list ... done
failed to set permissions on home : Operation not permitted
home/brad/
home/ftp/bin/
home/ftp/etc/
home/ftp/pub/
home/rsyncuser/
failed to set permissions on home : Operation not permitted
home/brad/
wrote 14591 bytes  read 40 bytes  4180.29 bytes/sec
total size is 1249200945  speedup is 85380.42
@ERROR: chroot failed


I have created the destination home directory as:
drwxrwxrwx   29 root     root         4096 Mar 20 00:07 home

The source home directory is:
4 drwxr-xr-x   28 root     root         4096 Mar 19 15:12 home


When I checked the transferred files permissions inside the destination 
home
directory, I get:

4 drwx------    4 nobody   nobody       4096 Nov 28  2000 admin
4 drwx------    4 nobody   nobody       4096 Aug 27  2001 arkeia
etc....

so this problem looks like a permissions/ownerships issue of some kind.


According to the rsync documentation, the -a switch contains:

-p, --perms                 preserve permissions
-o, --owner                 preserve owner (root only)
-g, --group                  preserve group
-D, --devices              preserve devices (root only)

So as I understand it, rsync will take all the permissions and ownerships
from the source files and apply them to the destination files, and yet I 
am
getting "nobody" as a group and owner on the destination files and
directories.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Regards,
Brad


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