- A6: escape attacker-controlled file paths and the receive root in log
lines (file_receive, server, protocol DEBUG) with output_escape()
- A8: identity_set_active() returns bool and fails closed when a requested
usermap/groupmap cannot be deep-copied; handler refuses the connection
- remove the const cast and duplicate super_mode clamp from
server_module_gate via an explicit override the handler applies once
- release the identity snapshot on the queue_create failure path
- refactor identity_parse_copy_as to a single cleanup tail and drop the
duplicated group error format specifier
- H3: a daemon module without 'client owner = yes' now also has super-user
device activity forced off (char/block mknod, --write-devices), so a root
daemon can no longer be made to create/write raw devices under AUTO. The
entries are skipped, preserving ordinary -a pushes.
- H1/H2: propagate a failed required --copy-as chown from symlink metadata
restore and implicitly-created parent directories, so the entry (and run)
reports failure instead of a wrong-owner success.
- Docs/help/headers updated for A2/A3 and the device clamp; startup warning
spells out the client-owner risk.
- Tests: daemon device clamp (skipped without opt-in, created with opt-in),
updated --super/--fake-super expectations.
A1: daemon refuses every client-chosen ownership/super-user request
(--numeric-ids/--chown/--usermap/--groupmap/--fake-super/--copy-as/--super)
unless the selected module opts in with 'client owner = yes'.
A2: fake-super owner replay requires an explicit ownership identity policy.
A3: --super no longer implies --numeric-ids (ownership stays opt-in).
A5: a failed --copy-as chown marks the entry failed instead of reporting
success with the wrong owner.
Add the receiver-side --super / --no-super tri-state (Config->super_mode)
under the safe-subset + clear-refusal privilege model: FastSync never
elevates privileges, it only permits super-user attempts that are already
confined fd-relative below the authorized receive root.
- identity: privilege_super_permitted() gate (OFF=false, ON=true, AUTO follows
geteuid()==0); identity_apply_ownership/_link become no-ops when not
permitted; --super with no explicit identity policy implies raw numeric-id
preservation (explicit usermap/groupmap/chown/numeric-ids still win); warn
exactly once when --super is requested by a non-root receiver.
- file_receive: gate char/block device-node creation on the gate; FIFO/socket
handling is unchanged.
- wire: trailing super_mode int after the --iconv spec, validated 0..2 in
receive_privilege_options and validate_received_config; PROTOCOL_VERSION
2.17.0 -> 2.18.0; version-sensitive tests and docs updated.
- CLI: --super/--no-super parsed explicitly before the generic --no-* branch
(malformed --super=x rejected); usage text added.
- tests: config wire round-trip + invalid-value rejection, privilege-gate mode
unit test, CLI parse test, integration transfer + root-gated ownership
suppression/appliance tests.
- docs: RSYNC_COMPAT --super row + Wave E note, protocol mentions, README.
Force the receiver to apply the requested owner/group to every written
entry through the confined fd-relative identity path instead of switching
the process credentials (unsafe for the multithreaded receiver). An
unprivileged receiver refuses the transfer up front in server_module_gate,
before STATUS_OK, so no data is written with the wrong ownership.
- new Config fields copy_as_set/copy_as_uid/copy_as_gid + defaults
- identity_parse_copy_as (name/@N/* resolution, primary-gid default,
gid==uid fallback for numeric ids with no passwd entry); implies -M
- identity snapshot + highest-priority forcing in identity_resolve_targets
- identity_copy_as_refused() helper
- trailing config-frame block (presence int + two int32 ids, >=0 checked)
- PROTOCOL_VERSION 2.17.0 -> 2.18.0; version-sensitive tests updated
- unit tests for parse + wire round-trip/negative-id rejection
- integration TestCopyAs: unprivileged refusal + root chown assertion
- RSYNC_COMPAT.md --copy-as row updated (safe subset + divergence); README
protocol version refreshed
Wave D of Phase 7. Make -O/--omit-dir-times and -J/--omit-link-times real by
preserving directory and symlink times, and mark --secluded-args as an explicit
Impossible/Divergence no-op.
Wire: PROTOCOL_VERSION 2.16.0 -> 2.17.0. Adds a terminal STATUS_DIR_TIMES frame
(int count + (wire path, metadata) pairs) sent after all file data and the
optional delete manifest. STATUS_MKDIR also carries metadata for --dirs entries.
Config-frame layout is unchanged.
Sender: the recursive scanner captures every traversed source directory (both
DirectoryScanner and the parallel scanner root + workers, appends mutex-guarded)
into a shared list; the single-threaded and -m paths transmit it last.
Receiver: a DirTimeList accumulates received directory metadata and applies it
with fd-relative no-follow utimensat only at the very end -- after all children,
after the commit-style --delete, and after --delay-updates publication -- in the
single-threaded success frame and in server.c after the -m threads join. -O skips
the application. Symlink metadata is applied at link creation with
utimensat/fchownat/fchmodat AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW; -J suppresses only link times.
identity_apply_ownership_link shares the identity resolver with the fd path.
Docs: -O/-J rows -> Implemented; --secluded-args -> Impossible/Divergence;
--protocol accepted/rejected values and Phase-6/7 notes updated.
Tests: unit (scanner dir capture, DirTimeList apply, symlink metadata, protocol
version values) and integration (dir mtime round-trip + -O, symlink mtime
round-trip + -J, independent suppression), parameterized over single/multithread.
Receiver-side ownership application, opt-in and privilege-gated:
- OFF for every existing transfer (plain -M/--preserve still never applies
ownership); only triggers on an explicit identity flag + receiver permission.
- EPERM/EACCES warn-and-continue (never aborts); other fchown errors escalate.
- fd-relative fchown after the file is written (symlink-safe, confined).
- New src/shared/identity.{c,h}; config fields numeric_ids / chown uid/gid /
usermap + groupmap id-pair tables cross the wire; PROTOCOL_VERSION 2.10.0
-> 2.11.0. CLI in client_cli.c; per-connection snapshot in server.c.
- Review fixes: EPERM/EACCES-only warn-and-continue, prominent root-receiver
notice, identity_clear_active on early server error paths, --numeric-ids
kept inert standalone (removed from activation trigger set).
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