similar to: chroot and wrong user names

Hi all, Tripped over a documentation bug. I'm guessing the behavior I've found isn't a bug in itself as it's kind of implied by chroot (unless the /etc/passwd db is read *before* you do the chroot call), so I'm calling it a documentation bug. The Setup: System A: running rsync --daemon from xinetd, configured with a read-only share. System B: syncing a local directory

I have rsync-2.5.5 humming along on FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE with no apparent problems. However, I notice when some clients connect to sync, I get this in /var/log/messages rsyncd[42843]: /etc/pwd.db: No such file or directory rsync is running as root with this basic rsync.conf: use chroot = yes read only = yes timeout = 600 Well of course /etc/pwd.db exists and could be readable, but more

Hello, I am trying to run rsync under my own userid on a high-numbered port. The problem is that, when I use the --daemon option, I get an error saying that a chroot() call failed. My config file does *not* have any chroot call in it. How can I avoid a chroot() invocation when running as a normal non-root user? Thanks in advance for any advice! -- Daniel Ortmann, LSI Logic, 3425 40th Av NW,

At the moment, if you start an rsyncd that's not running as root using default settings it will have some trouble. rsyncd tries to use chroot by default, but this will always fail if it's not started by root. It does emit an error message in this case, but I wonder if some people find this a bit confusing until they discover the setting. I have in the past. It might be better that if

Why would I be getting this on a box? I have the same permissions on many other directories. Using verbose mode shows nothing more then the error in the Subject line. Any help is appreciated. -- Jason G Helfman Network Administrator BizRate.com 310.754.1264 desk

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11013 Bug ID: 11013 Summary: [patch] Mention that privileges are dropped, when "use chroot" is enabled in rsyncd.conf manpage Product: rsync Version: 3.1.1 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: trivial Priority: P5

Hi all again... I did a chroot patch with ability to change uid and gid. I dunno if you all approve with the current implementation but the patch is small and it works here. remember to CC, since i'm not on this ml... //Ian Kumlien PS. To anyone on vorbis-dev, I'm *REALLY* sorry must be tired or something.. =) DS. <p><p><p> -------------- next part -------------- A

There are a couple of niggles with the sandboxing of the unprivileged child in the privsep code: the empty directory causes namespace pollution, and it requires care to ensure that it is set up properly and remains set up properly. The patch below (against the portable OpenSSH, although the patch against the OpenBSD version is very similar) replaces the fixed empty directory with one that is

I'm trying to synchronize a particularly troublesome directory structure on a SunOS box to a PC. I really want all symbolic links resolved to real files on the PC when everything is done. I can't seem to find any combination of parameters that will accomplish this. It boils down to two problems. 1. It seems like that even if I exclude a symbolic link that is a directory it is not

The subject says it all :-) Apparently in pre-3.0.0 versions '%P' would log the actual path as specified in the module entry in rsyncd.conf, but now it's apparently relative to the chroot... Paul Slootman

Greetings, Has anyone successfully compiled rsync 2.5.5 under Mac OS X (not Server), and actually have it work fully? I'm in a position where I'm trying to setup an automated nightly remote backup between and Cobalt Raq4 (running a variant of Redhat Linux) and a Mac running OS X 10.1.5 with the latest development tools installed. As has been pointed out previously on the list, one has

I am trying to use rsync to transfer some directories from a RedHat 7.0 box to a RedHat 7.1 rsync server via a cron job. The cron command line: 00 00 * * * /usr/local/bin/emailbackup > /tmp/backup.log 2>&1; mail -s "Rsync Backup Log" my@emailaddres < /tmp/backup.log The 7.1 rsyncd.cond; [home] path = /home/brad/data/emailbackup read only = no uid = root gid = root The

This has been asked before, but my question is somewhat different. On FreeBSD, the message: rsyncd[520]: /etc/pwd.db: No such file or directory is obviously caused by a chrooted rsyncd being unable to access /etc/pwd.db to get at the password database to convert UIDs to names and back. Workorounds of putting /etc/pwd.db in the chrooted directory have been offered, and that's one solution.

Hello, I am trying to configure rsyncd to mount destination encrypted FS (using EncFS) before syncing. In my rsyncd.conf : [test] path = /home/dest <...> pre-xfer exec = sleep 30 ; echo mypassword | encfs -S /home/ encrypteddir /home/dest ; sleep 30 (I have put "sleep 30" instructions just to make some tests) /home/encrypteddir is correctly mounted by rsyncd to /home/dest

Took a while to figure this one out: Since "use chroot" defaults to true, I was having issues of UID/GID's not mapping between servers. On AIX, if chroot() is called, the getpwuid() calls fail, no longer being able to find /etc/passwd. Since the that call doesn't differentiate between a 'failure' and a 'unable to map uid', rsync assumes it can't map the

Hi, I am not sure it this still is a point, but I just discovered that a chrooted rsync version 2.6.3pre1 is forgetting the time zone underways: Jan 12 07:00:01 ftp4 rsyncd[11091]: rsync on dobes/ from dobes@edoc1.gwdg.de (134.76.28.251) Jan 12 06:00:39 ftp4 rsyncd[11091]: wrote 732542 bytes read 182 bytes total size 553909487945 Logging is done with syslog. Time zone is GMT+1, the system

Hello, evevryone. thank you for your mails. I used rsync(rsync-2.4.6-2) for backup Server.(My Linux is RedHat7.1) I am very comfortable backup system by rsync. but, I saw this messages in use rsyncd daemon.(/var/log/messages) I don't know mean this messages. but, It is right use rsyncd. and I used rsyncd at every day. but this messages writed log at every minute(?) or every time. What

I'm running FreeBSD 4.6.2 on two different machines. Both machines have rync installed by way of the ports library, but one of them is running it as a server. I followed the directions in the man pages for running the server using inetd. Here is what happens: rsync rsync://myusername@10.0.0.8/ rsync: server sent "rysnc version 2.5.5 protocol version 26" rather than

Hi All: I am new to rsync so be gentle with me. I have been able to get rsync working enough to be able to list modules but not transfer files. When I try to transfer a file from the client to the server I use the command: rsync -avz fapmenu fisdev::bak The client displays the following messages: @ERROR: access denied to bak from pgiprd.forsoft.com (192.168.2.19) rsync:

I am attempting to utilize the exclude from option in my rsync configuration file (rather than maintain lists on users machines) but it does not appear to be working. One example, I placed *.mp3 in the file to keep them from syncing mp3 files to the server and jamming up space. But rsync just seems to ignore this and syncs the files anyway without any errors to the syslog. All of my