rsyncd / firewall

[Wayne Davison]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:33:56PM +0000, david blunkett wrote:
> I don't think my daemon is chrooting but I don't undestand how this is 
> controlled so I can't be sure,

It uses chroot by default unless "use chroot = no" is placed in the
rsyncd.conf file that your daemon is reading (which is often found in
the /etc dir).  If it was used, you should see a call to it in the
system call output you got from the earlier run.

Another thing to try (which I thought of while writing the paragraph
below) is using --numeric-ids and see if that cures the problem without
turning off chroot.

I would be very interested in knowing what library file the program is
trying to open at that point if it turns out that the chroot is causing
the problem.  Does the system-call trace mention it a little earlier in
the output?  If not, you could determine this by copying (or "bind"
mounting) the /usr/lib and /lib dirs into the "path" area for the
module, turning chroot back on, and using the system-call tracing you
used before, note what library file it opens after chroot is called.
The only library I can think of at the moment would be something in the
interpretation of user IDs into user names.

..wayne..