password rsync without root account

[sapoguheman]

Hi Admins - 

I need your help for one of my production client which is syncing its file from Production Server to DR servers via rsync using root account.

Due to Compliance - Root Account will Be Disabled.

Is there any way where I can achieve the same level of functionality for the rsync script using sudo.

[mbarnwal]

Rsync is an opensource tool and used more widely on Linux. You may find many solutions and workaround for this.

Following works on my system.

Assuming /tmp/test2 has files with root ownership and non-root users does not have any permissions for these.

Also, this assumes that root's ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub on host1 is appended to user1's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on host2.

user1@host1 $ sudo rsync -p -v -r --rsync-path="sudo rsync" /tmp/test2 user1@host2:/tmp/

Regards

Manish