Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC v4 and rsync for localhost

[Daniel B. <da...@fi...>]

Le 16/06/2017 à 05:13, Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users a écrit :
> You can set $Conf{RsyncSshArgs} to a command that simply executes its 
> arguments (like ssh does).  However, rsync adds the host name to 
> whatever you specify in $Conf{RsyncSshArgs}, so unfortunately this 
> doesn't work since the first argument is the host name, and env will 
> give an error:
>
>     $Conf{RsyncSshArgs} = ['-e', '/usr/bin/env'];    # <- this doesn't
>     work
>
> A very bad hack would be to use something like this:
>
>     $Conf{RsyncSshArgs} = ['-e', '/usr/bin/sudo -p'];
>
> (sudo has to be passwordless from the BackupPC user.)  The -p (prompt) 
> option expects an argument to set the password prompt (which is not 
> used).  So it consumes the host name argument appended by rsync, then 
> runs the rest of the command like ssh does.  Bingo - the client rsync 
> gets run locally, with elevated privileges from sudo, without ssh.
>

Thanks Craig, I'll try ASAP this :-)

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