[TriLUG] copying files

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Bill Farrow wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
>> Someone could take the box home and open it up.
>
> So you will have to treat the client boxes as compromised 
> at all times.

yes

> The only way to secure this properly is at the server.

sounds logical.

> To provide a level of security, you can use the rsync 
> daemon configured to have each client authenticate with a 
> separate username and password, and also separate the file 
> accesses and limit them to write only.  All authentication 
> is done by rsyncd and you don't need to create accounts on 
> the server for each client.

just what I need.

> Therefore clients would never have shell access on the 
> server, can only write files to a particular directory on 
> the server, and do not have access to files from other 
> clients.

perfect

> Using rsyncd might also give you a speed up because it 
> will not encrypt the data during transfer.

sounds good.

Thanks Joe

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