Rsync Users and Groups

[Kevin Korb]

Nope.  Rsync groups are not groups of users they are just @users with 
their own password.  I believe the @ just designates that you intend 
multiple people to have that password and use that username.

On 6/24/22 12:34, Alexander Gribanov via rsync wrote:
> Hello, Kevin! Thank You very much for the reply.
> 
> пт, 24 июн. 2022 г. в 19:00, Kevin Korb via rsync <rsync at lists.samba.org 
> <mailto:rsync at lists.samba.org>>:
> 
>     I think you are thinking too much of rsync here.  Rsync groups are the
>     same as users they just have an @ in front of the name.  If you want
>     UNIX style users and groups then use rsync over ssh and get the
>     bonus of
>     ssh's authentication as well as not needing an rsyncd.conf file at all.
> 
> 
> Well, actually, I wouldn't like to do anything with system users and groups,
> but it would be nice to have virtual users and groups, which are 
> available for rsyncd only.
> Is it possible?
> 
> Or maybe there is an opportunity to use external authentication 
> mechanisms or some kind of modules, etc?
> 
>     On 6/24/22 11:13, Alexander Gribanov via rsync wrote:
>      > Hello everybody!
>      >
>      > I'm trying to configure rsync-server, but still I can't figure
>     out how
>      > to manage users and groups.
>      >
>      > I read in the documentation that I could use both, but there is
>     nothing
>      > about how to add a user into a particular group...
>      >
>      > Why am I doing this?
>      > 1. I have about 10 modules, which are different and must be
>     available
>      > for some users and not available for other users.
>      > 2. There are many users, new users are arriving, some old users are
>      > going out, so it would be easier to assign group permissions to the
>      > modules and then manage just user-group relations, but I couldn't
>     find
>      > that in documentation, nor examples on the internet...
>      >
>      > Could anybody please give me a hint or a clue about how to assign
>     a user
>      > to a particular group? I'm sure that this should work, but I
>     can't find
>      > it out myself :(
>      >
>      > Thank you very much.
>      >
> 
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