On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 04:52:16PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. That is what I read too from the documentation. So one could possibly ask the developers for a patch (or do it myself)? best regards keld