Hi, I have a little problem, and at the first look it might look easy, but it's not, or at least I did not find an easy solution. I have 2 server, which must rsync some files, including /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Everything was working fine until we decided to forbid rootlogin on the server, and use sudo for the sync. My problem is that /etc/shadow has a file permission of 400, so the non privilegd user can not read it, so I can use a command like this Code: rsync --rsync-path='sudo rsync' --rsh='/usr/bin/ssh -x' --archive /etc/shadow user@server2:/etc/shadow because user is not authorised to read /etc/shadow, so I tried this Code: rsync --rsync-path='sudo rsync' --rsh='/usr/bin/ssh -x' --archive user@localhost:/etc/shadow user@server2:/etc/shadow so that it uses sudo twice, but I get this error Code: rsync: mkstemp "/home/user/user@server2:/etc/.shadow.wBWPkX" failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1146) So does somebody know an easy and Secure solution? Thanks
Thanks falko for your reply, as it was not an easy question, I was not expecting a magical solution, but I tough that maybe somebody already had this problem. Maybe I will try to ask on a sudo mailing list.
