ISSUE: When I'm running rsync as root (daemon and client sides) on a directory with no rights for other (chmod 750), I get an error message: "failed: Permission denied (13)" Is it the expected behaviour for rsync? HOW TO REPRODUCE: Make a test directory to share with rsync: # id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel) # mkdir /test/ # touch /test/myNiceFile Remove the rights for Other: # chmod o-rx /test/ # ls -al /test/ total 8 drwxr-x---. 2 root root 4096 Apr 18 13:31 . dr-xr-xr-x. 25 root root 4096 Apr 18 13:31 .. -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Apr 18 13:31 myNiceFile Edit the config file # cat /etc/rsyncd.conf [test-rsync] path = /test/ Start the daemon as root: # rsync --daemon Run the sync (on the localhost) also as root: # rsync -avzH localhost::test-rsync /tmp/ receiving incremental file list rsync: change_dir "/" (in test-rsync) failed: Permission denied (13) sent 4 bytes received 6 bytes 20.00 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1505) [receiver=3.0.6] I was able to reproduce on RHEL 5.8, Fedora 18, Debian 6.0 and Ubuntu 10.04.
I also tested on RHEL 6.3 and get the same reaction.
I recommend just using the mailing list for asking questions about using rsync. Abusing bugzilla for this is not very productive. Your problem is that you either didn't read the documentation thoroughly, or didn't understand it. From the rsyncd.conf manpage: uid This parameter specifies the user name or user ID that file transfers to and from that module should take place as when the daemon was run as root. In combination with the “gid” parameter this deter- mines what file permissions are available. The default is uid -2, which is normally the user “nobody”. So even though you started rsyncd as root, it uses "nobody" by default for access.
(In reply to comment #2) > I recommend just using the mailing list for asking questions about using rsync. > Abusing bugzilla for this is not very productive. > > Your problem is that you either didn't read the documentation thoroughly, or > didn't understand it. From the rsyncd.conf manpage: > > > uid This parameter specifies the user name or user ID > that file transfers to and from that module should > take place as when the daemon was run as root. In > combination with the “gid” parameter this deter- > mines what file permissions are available. The > default is uid -2, which is normally the user > “nobody”. > > So even though you started rsyncd as root, it uses "nobody" by default for > access. I just found the solution by myself when looking for something else. My mistake! But you already replied! So thank you I will directly close this case.