On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 04:38:34PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > >> > >>What do you guys do? > > > >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. > > > > Why not use xinetd? That's what it's designed to do. I have had trouble with the stability of xinetd best regards keld