Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-29 Thread Sherin A
On Thursday 29 August 2013 11:46 PM, Wayne Davison wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Sherin A sherin...@gmail.com mailto:sherin...@gmail.com wrote: Hope they will report it as a vulnerability , because this POC has been exploited successfully and it is affected by all

Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-27 Thread Sherin A
exploited successfully and it is affected by all software that use rsync as a backup and restore tool. -- -- Regards Sherin A http://www.sherin.co.in/ -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change

Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-27 Thread Sherin A
On Wednesday 28 August 2013 08:36 AM, Kevin Korb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Only when you choose to force a completely unnecessary chown between the backup and restore process. On 08/27/13 23:03, Sherin A wrote: On Wednesday 28 August 2013 04:14 AM, Kevin Korb wrote

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-16 Thread Sherin A
. On 08/14/13 15:20, Sherin A wrote: On Wednesday 14 August 2013 11:04 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: The point of --fake-super is that when you restore the file with --fake-super it will restore with the original ownership. Of course that means that the restore has to be run with super privs

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-14 Thread Sherin A
On Tuesday 13 August 2013 10:24 PM, Justin T Pryzby wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:10:04PM +0530, Sherin A wrote: I am doing rsync from root@10.0.0.10/home/foo to storageuser@10.0.0.20/home/storageuser/dailybackup/foo over ssh (no role for -H) Why not rsync from root to root? Or use

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-14 Thread Sherin A
On Wednesday 14 August 2013 08:29 PM, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 04:09:46PM +0530, Sherin A wrote: On Tuesday 13 August 2013 10:24 PM, Justin T Pryzby wrote: PS : if any one interested in making a patch with an additional option for rsync for excluding hardlinks

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-14 Thread Sherin A
valuable time and help . -- -- Regards Sherin A http://www.sherin.co.in/ -- 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

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-14 Thread Sherin A
with - --fake-super it will restore with the original ownership. Of course that means that the restore has to be run with super privs on the target and --fake-super on the source. On 08/14/13 13:30, Sherin A wrote: On Wednesday 14 August 2013 10:25 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-14 Thread Sherin A
/14/13 15:20, Sherin A wrote: On Wednesday 14 August 2013 11:04 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: The point of --fake-super is that when you restore the file with --fake-super it will restore with the original ownership. Of course that means that the restore has to be run with super privs on the target

Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-13 Thread Sherin A
/2013 01:11 AM, Sherin A wrote: Can some one create a patch for excluding hard link regular file from copying ?. May be like a command flag , rsync --no-hardlink-copy Hello Jose, I think it is possible to check whether a file is regular file or having more than one links, ( you can

Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-13 Thread Sherin A
, then backup is the least of your problems. Joe On 08/13/2013 03:00 AM, Sherin A wrote: On Tuesday 13 August 2013 12:23 PM, Joe wrote: Is there any way at all to say which is the original file and which is the hard link? I'll bet there isn't, although I' m not an internals guy at all. If so, this would

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-13 Thread Sherin A
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Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-13 Thread Sherin A
. :( -- -- Regards Sherin A http://www.sherin.co.in/ -- 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

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-13 Thread Sherin A
On Tuesday 13 August 2013 08:56 PM, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: On 13.08.2013 20:44, Sherin A wrote: On Tuesday 13 August 2013 05:50 PM, Paul Slootman wrote: On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: BUT there is no direct vulnerability in that, only processes after that (like

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-13 Thread Sherin A
On Tuesday 13 August 2013 09:07 PM, Justin T Pryzby wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 08:44:08PM +0530, Sherin A wrote: On Tuesday 13 August 2013 05:50 PM, Paul Slootman wrote: On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: BUT there is no direct vulnerability in that, only processes after

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-13 Thread Sherin A
On Tuesday 13 August 2013 09:49 PM, Justin T Pryzby wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 09:43:06PM +0530, Sherin A wrote: If linux user foo , with home /home/foo , what ownership we need to give the files under his home folder , it must be foo and not root. Why? The user created the hardlink

need help with an rsync patch

2013-08-12 Thread Sherin A
Can some one create a patch for excluding hard link regular file from copying ?. May be like a command flag , rsync --no-hardlink-copy -- -- Regards Sherin A http://www.sherin.co.in/ -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting