it there a reason you are not running it out of a root crontab? On Jul 10, 2016 6:17 PM, "John Jason Jordan" <joh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I have a command that does what I want, but that means it uses three > options (-t --time, -o --owner, and -g --group), all three of which > require root. Ultimately this will be run daily at 2am. Getting up at > 2am to pump in my password is not going to happen. > > According to the rsync man page adding --super is supposed to eliminate > this need. I just tried it. The man page lied. Or maybe I failed to > understand it completely. > > According to what I have read it is also possible to supply a password > in a shell script, but that this is an extremely high security risk. > > There must be a way around this dilemma. Suggestions? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
