[Bug 11414] rsync: chgrp "/.filename.5afK5X" (in dirdir) failed: Operation not permitted (1)

[Kevin Korb]

It isn't running as root (it probably never should).  It is launched as
root.  It is running as tester:tester just like you set it to.

On 11/06/2017 10:31 AM, just subscribed for rsync-qa from bugzilla via
rsync wrote:
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11414
> 
> --- Comment #2 from Michal Ruprich <mruprich at redhat.com> ---
> I stumbled upon this bug and I have a question. I get the chgrp error even when
> running the daemon as root. 
> 
> #ps -aux | grep rsync
> root     18486  0.0  0.0 114696   568 ?        Ss   09:41   0:00 rsync --daemon
> 
> I have configured a module in /etc/rsyncd.conf like this:
> [my_data]
>     comment = test dir for rsync
>     path = /home/tester
>     read only = no
>     uid = tester
>     gid = tester
> 
> Now when I try to copy file 'data' to this module:
> # rsync -av data localhost::my_data
> sending incremental file list
> data
> rsync: chgrp "/.data.CFttwz" (in my_data) failed: Operation not permitted (1)
> 
> sent 86 bytes  received 117 bytes  406.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code
> 23) at main.c(1178) [sender=3.1.2]
> 
> This doesn't happen with version 3.0.9. And I think that this should not
> happen. It works fine with the 'fake super' option set to 'yes' but the daemon
> runs under root and the fake super option says: "This allows the full
> attributes of a file to be stored without having to have the daemon actually
> running as root." From this description I would assume that you don't need the
> 'fake super' option to transfer all attributes when the daemon runs under root
> right?
> 

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