[CentOS] rsync and selinux

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 01/07/2013 10:41 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> 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
> 
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Seemed to be worthy of a blog

http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/61646.html

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