Backing Up Files I Don't Own

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Sat Mar 20 16:46:41 GMT 2004


On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:05:28AM -0500, Tim Conway wrote:
> rsync notices that, and refuses to act like root unless it 
> was invoked by a root-owned process.

FYI, the CVS version now acts like root if the effective UID is root, so
it will work in the situation where someone chooses to make it setuid.

..wayne..


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