Chris Green via rsync <rsync@lists.samba.org> wrote: > Is there a way to copy (for example) the /etc hierarchy from one > system to another preserving root ownership of files and without > revealing root passwords all over the place? > > This is actually from and to Debian based systems (from Raspberry Pi > to Xubuntu) so there's no actual root user login anyway, it's all sudo > from privileged user. > > So, it's easy for the sending end to be run as root as it's going to be > run by a script in /etc/cron.daily, so it can access all the files in > /etc even if only readable by root. > > But how do you handle the other end to restore the root ownership etc.? > The script has to do something like:- > > rsync -a /etc/ chris@remote:backups/etc/ > > So at the remote end it only has chris' privileges. > > > I want to automate this, I don't want any manual intervention to be > needed. >
If I used the --super option (in a command like the one above) and chris can run rsync as root on the remote end (via options in the sudoers file) will this do what I want? I guess I can go away and try it! :-) -- Chris Green ยท -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
