rsync - Dec 2005 - Permission problem with rsync in daemon mode

RHEL 3
rsync  version 2.5.7  protocol version 26

Hello all,

I got rsync working mostly fine.   I setup rsync in daemon mode for
retrievel by another hosts.  In terms of retrieving it works fine, but
not when it comes to dir ownership.

Command used
sudo rsync --archive --compress -vv --sparse --progress -e ssh
jon@linuxhost::netegrity /users/jon/test/

The /users/jon/test/ is owned by jon:jon while the "netegrity" dir on
the rsync server has root:root ownership.   So when I try execute the
above command, I get the correct ownership for netegrity, but somehow
the "test" directory ownership changes(maybe access permission changed
too?) to root:root instead of jon:jon.   I don''t know why that happens.
If I execute the command without "sudo" all ownership goes to jon:jon

Thanks for any help as to what I''m doing wrong in rsyncd.conf??  

Part of rsyncd.conf

hosts allow = 64.104.129.227/28

log file  = /tools/logs/sync/sync.log
lock file = /tools/logs/sync/syncd.lock

uid = cdemgr
gid = cdemgr
use chroot = no
list = yes
dont compress = *.gz *.tgz *.zip *.z *.rpm *.deb *.iso *.bz2 *.tbz *.jar
refuse options = delete

[netegrity]

        comment = /tools/netegrity

        path = /tools/netegrity                                       
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On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 09:21 -0800, Jonathan Chen -X
wrote:
> sudo rsync --archive --compress -vv --sparse --progress -e ssh
> jon@linuxhost::netegrity /users/jon/test/
> 
> The /users/jon/test/ is owned by jon:jon while the "netegrity"
dir on
> the rsync server has root:root ownership.   So when I try execute the
> above command, I get the correct ownership for netegrity, but somehow
> the "test" directory ownership changes(maybe access permission
changed
> too?) to root:root instead of jon:jon.   I don''t know why that
happens.
> If I execute the command without "sudo" all ownership goes to
jon:jon
rsync is copying the server''s netegrity directory onto your test
directory, and you told rsync to preserve ownership (--archive), so it
sets the ownership of test to match netegrity, i.e. root:root.  (When
rsync lacks the privileges to give test to root:root, it simply skips
that step without complaining; some consider this behavior wrong.)

If you don''t want to preserve ownership at all, use -rltpD instead of
--archive, which means -rltpogD.

Alternatively, use a wildcard to copy only the files inside netegrity
but not netegrity itself, in which case no attributes of test will be
changed to match netegrity:
	rsync <...> jon@linuxhost::netegrity/* /users/jon/test/

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Matt McCutchen, ``hashproduct''''
hashproduct@verizon.net -- http://hashproduct.metaesthetics.net/

Matt, 

Thanks for clearing some things up.  Still I want ''netegrity''
dir
ownership/permission to be the same but not the ''test'' dir
ownership/permission to be changed.  Is it possible without the
''--archive'' switches?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt McCutchen [mailto:hashproduct@verizon.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 9:49 AM
> To: Jonathan Chen -X (jonachen - The Armada Group, Inc. at Cisco)
> Cc: rsync@lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: Permission problem with rsync in daemon mode
> 
> On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 09:21 -0800, Jonathan Chen -X wrote:
> > sudo rsync --archive --compress -vv --sparse --progress -e ssh 
> > jon@linuxhost::netegrity /users/jon/test/
> > 
> > The /users/jon/test/ is owned by jon:jon while the 
> "netegrity" dir on
> > the rsync server has root:root ownership.   So when I try 
> execute the
> > above command, I get the correct ownership for netegrity, 
> but somehow 
> > the "test" directory ownership changes(maybe access 
> permission changed
> > too?) to root:root instead of jon:jon.   I don''t know why 
> that happens.
> > If I execute the command without "sudo" all ownership goes 
> to jon:jon
> 
> rsync is copying the server''s netegrity directory onto your 
> test directory, and you told rsync to preserve ownership 
> (--archive), so it sets the ownership of test to match 
> netegrity, i.e. root:root.  (When rsync lacks the privileges 
> to give test to root:root, it simply skips that step without 
> complaining; some consider this behavior wrong.)
> 
> If you don''t want to preserve ownership at all, use -rltpD 
> instead of --archive, which means -rltpogD.
> 
> Alternatively, use a wildcard to copy only the files inside 
> netegrity but not netegrity itself, in which case no 
> attributes of test will be changed to match netegrity:
> 	rsync <...> jon@linuxhost::netegrity/* /users/jon/test/
> 
> --
> Matt McCutchen, ``hashproduct''''
> hashproduct@verizon.net -- http://hashproduct.metaesthetics.net/
>

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 09:21:37AM -0800, Jonathan Chen -X (jonachen - The
Armada Group,  Inc. at Cisco) wrote:
> sudo rsync --archive --compress -vv --sparse --progress -e ssh
> jon@linuxhost::netegrity /users/jon/test/
> 
> The /users/jon/test/ is owned by jon:jon while the "netegrity"
dir on
> the rsync server has root:root ownership.
The "netegrity" in that command is a module name, not a directory, so
that name is not duplicated in the destination.  If the module contains
a nested netegrity directory, then switching your source to use
"jon@linuxhost::netegrity/netegrity" will ensure that the parent
directory''s permissions/ownership don''t affect the test dir. 
If not,
switching the destination to "/users/jon/test/netegrity" will put the
contents of the module in that directory (which may be what you were
expecting to happen).

..wayne..

Apologize for the confusion.  I am aware the module name is not
duplicated on the destination.

So it would copy "/tools/netegrity/siteminder/" to destination
~jon/test/siteminder with permission like below.

drwxr-xr-x    3 cdemgr   cdemgr       4096 Apr  5  2005 siteminder

The "/tools/netegrity/" permission is like above.

Still I just don''t understand why it changes the ~jon/test ownership to
''cdemgr''too.  Where did I misconfigure or assume?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Davison [mailto:wayned@samba.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:06 AM
> To: Jonathan Chen -X (jonachen - The Armada Group, Inc. at Cisco)
> Cc: rsync@lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: Permission problem with rsync in daemon mode
> 
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 09:21:37AM -0800, Jonathan Chen -X 
> (jonachen - The Armada Group,  Inc. at Cisco) wrote:
> > sudo rsync --archive --compress -vv --sparse --progress -e ssh 
> > jon@linuxhost::netegrity /users/jon/test/
> > 
> > The /users/jon/test/ is owned by jon:jon while the 
> "netegrity" dir on 
> > the rsync server has root:root ownership.
> 
> The "netegrity" in that command is a module name, not a 
> directory, so that name is not duplicated in the destination. 
>  If the module contains a nested netegrity directory, then 
> switching your source to use 
> "jon@linuxhost::netegrity/netegrity" will ensure that the 
> parent directory''s permissions/ownership don''t affect the
> test dir.  If not, switching the destination to 
> "/users/jon/test/netegrity" will put the contents of the 
> module in that directory (which may be what you were 
> expecting to happen).
> 
> ..wayne..
>

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 10:27:59AM -0800, Jonathan Chen -X (jonachen - The
Armada Group, Inc. at Cisco) wrote:
> Still I just don''t understand why it changes the ~jon/test
ownership to
> ''cdemgr''too.
This is because the directory ''.'' is copied when rsync copies
an entire
directory (as it is when copying an entire module or a directory with a
trailing slash).  As Matt mentioned, you can specify ''*'' to
get all the
contents of a directory without including the directory itself.

..wayne..

Yup that''s what it seems.  I tried to do 

[netegrity]
        comment = /apps/tools/netegrity
        path = /apps/tools/netegrity
        exclude = ./ ../


To just see it works or not and it doesnot.  I wish you can specify in
the conf file to ignore main dir hidden files or have path be "path
/apps/tools/netegrity/*"  instead of the above one.   Matt''s
method
works like a charm, but prefer to have configs in rsyncd.conf instead
though.
 
Thanks!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Davison [mailto:wayned@samba.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:39 AM
> To: Jonathan Chen -X (jonachen - The Armada Group, Inc. at Cisco)
> Cc: rsync@lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: Permission problem with rsync in daemon mode
> 
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 10:27:59AM -0800, Jonathan Chen -X 
> (jonachen - The Armada Group, Inc. at Cisco) wrote:
> > Still I just don''t understand why it changes the ~jon/test 
> ownership 
> > to ''cdemgr''too.
> 
> This is because the directory ''.'' is copied when rsync
copies
> an entire directory (as it is when copying an entire module 
> or a directory with a trailing slash).  As Matt mentioned, 
> you can specify ''*'' to get all the contents of a
directory
> without including the directory itself.
> 
> ..wayne..
>