11.2.0 development build 14 released

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why can't you give rsync the appropriate capabilities

That would be "read any file, even those owned by root and only
root-readable". If we do that. we allow an un-privileged rsync to
literally read any file in the fs. You only need to spot a trivial bug
in rsync or our rsync configuration to say hi to /etc/shadow and
/home/*/.ssh/id_rsa :-)

cheers,



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