lhecking at users.sourceforge.net wrote: > >> I use rsync extensively to transfer entire systems from and to SElinux >> enforcing environments and have never had a problem with reads using >> rsync when logged on as the root user. My typical command line is >> some variation of the following: >> >> /usr/bin/rsync -avX --delete-after --specials --times \ >> --exclude-from=/root/rsync.d/exclude.list \ >> 192.168.216.29:/* /. > > (-a includes --times :) > >> Are you connecting as the root user? > > I'm connecting in daemon mode since I'm using pre-defined modules. Any > other solution requires either a password or setting up passwordless ssh, > which I'm not inclined to do in this case. The purpose here is automation. Over here, we have a key we use only for backups with rsync, and we restrict what commands can be run with that key to rsync. mark