On 17 Jul 2001, Kwok Hoe Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Firstly, I must comment that rsync is the best file sync I have ever came
> across. Especially, for its simplicity and feature pack.
Thanks!
> Previously I was running rsync as a server on one end and a connecting
> client. This enable me to do a remote backup of the entire HD monthly.
>
> Now, for my two cents question. How do I setup rsync such that it is able to
> do a rsync of my entire HD (this includes all directories owned and readable
> by root only)? Our current ssh setting is to disallow root login through ssh
> (security reasons). I have tried setting up the authorized_keys but it
> doesn't work.
rsync doesn't have a way to get around your OS security restrictions.
If the files are only readable as root, then rsync on that machine
must run as root to read them.
There are several ways you can achieve that, depending on your
security architecture:
* use a 'push' rather than 'pull' setup, so that you log in as root
on the source machine and start rsync there
* allow root login with authorized keys
* allow root login with authorized keys through a special sshd that
runs on a different port and only accepts connections from
specified machines
* allow your userid on the machine to sudo to root with no password,
and use something like
rsync -e ssh --rsync-path 'sudo /usr/bin/rsync' mbp@remote:/ \
/backup/remote
There are many other possibilities...
--
Martin
VA Linux Systems
