an unwanted chroot() call
Lao Coon
laocoon at fastmail.fm
Fri Nov 14 01:15:45 EST 2003
Daniel Ortmann wrote:
>Ok, I figured out the answer, and as a result I have a suggestion:
>
>The rsyncd.conf documentation for "use chroot" should specify that:
>
> "use chroot = yes" is the default.
>
>
>
Oh, but it does. Quote from man rsyncd.conf
use chroot
If "use chroot" is true, the rsync server will chroot
to the
"path" before starting the file transfer with the
client. This
has the advantage of extra protection against possible
implemen-
tation security holes, but it has the disadvantages of
requiring
super-user privileges, of not being able to follow
symbolic
links outside of the new root path when reading, and of
implying
the --numeric-ids option because /etc/passwd becomes
inaccessi-
ble. When "use chroot" is false, for security reasons
symlinks
may only be relative paths pointing to other files
within the
root path, and leading slashes are removed from absolute
paths.
The default for "use chroot" is true.
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