Trying to elevate rsync privileges when connecting over ssh without using NOPASSWD in sudoers

[Richard Hector]

It may do the job; it doesn't AFAIK explain why the options are 
undocumented :-)

Cheers,
Richard

On 12/03/22 19:22, Kevin Korb via rsync wrote:
> 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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