Re: rsync as root (Was: [CentOS-mirror] New Mirror)

Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:

I would also like to run rsync as non-root, although I run it as root now.

I would like to do:

start rsync standalone connect to port 873 possibly chroot run as nobody

Is that possible? I understand that rsync changes from root to some non-root uid when it starts transferring, but in the mode where it processes commands there is a window of opportunity to make it do things. I would then like to close that window.

Nevermind the previous message. If you want to chroot, you have to run as root -- capabilities could be used to close that hole, though, but I don't think that's supported in rsync yet.

-hpa