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