Trying to elevate rsync privileges when connecting over ssh without using NOPASSWD in sudoers
Kevin Korb
kmk at sanitarium.net
Sat Mar 12 06:22:26 UTC 2022
Rsync includes a script named rrsync that handles this perfectly.
On 3/12/22 01:08, Richard Hector via rsync wrote:
> On 12/03/22 18:38, Richard Hector via rsync wrote:
>> And I do my backups (using dirvish) as root, using a key with a forced
>> command.
>
> FWIW, that forced command is here:
>
> https://github.com/rwhector/dirvish-forced-command
>
> It's rather unpolished and undocumented, but comments very welcome :-)
>
> I've also had an issue due to some server-side-only arguments to rsync
> being undocumented, which means I can't validate them, and basically
> have to accept anything ... I'd love to know why this is or has to be
> the case :-) I didn't get any particularly useful answers back in
> January 2019 ...
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>
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