2010/9/13 Jesús M. Navarro
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.
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