Hi, Hal: On Saturday 11 September 2010 23:15:50 Hal Vaughan wrote: > I will be working with a server on the Internet that uses rsync and is > running Debian. I will be setting up initial /etc/rsyncd.conf and > /etc/rsyncd.secrets files on it. But along the way, whenever a new user is > added, they'll need to be updated. I can use ssh on this system, but, of > course, I don't want to allow root access. > > I'd like to be able to have these files updated automatically when I add a > new user to another system. I could create new copies of the files > locally, where the users are added and use scp to copy them to a directory > on the server. But that's where there are problems. How can I chown the > files to root, copy them to /etc, and chmod as needed for rsync to use them > automatically?
I know that's not what you specifically asked for, but thinking a bit out-of-the-box, what you have is a need to remotely configure a machine from a "central" information repository. Have you though about using Puppet*1 for that? *1 http://www.puppetlabs.com Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201009131456.15818.jesus.nava...@undominio.net
