On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 15:37 +0200, Maarten te Paske wrote:

> OK, I will read a bit more into the rsync documentation. I thought this
> way I wouldn't be able to limit the privileges through sudo, but maybe
> I'm wrong.

I use the following line in /etc/sudoers to allow the user backups to
call rsync as root. Note this line does break rsync based recovery, but
this is part of the plan as it prevents the backuppc server writing to
the client being backed up.

backups ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender *

You will also need to remove the "requiretty" option from /etc/sudoers
too.

The $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} command becomes:
$sshPath -q -x -l backups $host sudo $rsyncPath $argList+


-- 
Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>


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