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...ven if you did that it is racy. I guess you could argue that it would be more friendly for rsync to behave differently, but at the moment it seems to me that would be both hard to implement reliably and not necessarily easier to use or understand. You can also run rsync from inside something like rlinetd that will chroot/setuid before launching the daemon, but I'm pretty sure all those programs will have the same behaviour. > Running an rsync service should be considered with the same security > caveats as running an ftp service. .. or any other service. I'm open to being convinced...