not a valid reference (such as an un-paired percent sign), the raw characters
are passed through unchanged. This helps with backward compatibility and
safety (e.g. expanding a non-existent %VAR% to an empty string in a path could
-result in a very unsafe path). Anyone that needs to insert a literal % string
-into a value should use %%.
+result in a very unsafe path). The safest way to insert a literal % into a
+value is to use %%.
startdit()
dit(bf(motd file)) This parameter allows you to specify a
dit(bf(path)) This parameter specifies the directory in the daemon's
filesystem to make available in this module. You must specify this parameter
-for each module in tt(rsyncd.conf). You may base the path's value off
-of an environment variable, even one that is set by rsync when the user
-connects. For example, this would use the authorizing user's name in the
-path:
+for each module in tt(rsyncd.conf).
+
+You may base the path's value off of an environment variable by surrounding
+the variable name with percent signs. You can even reference a variable
+that is set by rsync when the user connects.
+For example, this would use the authorizing user's name in the path:
verb( path = /home/%RSYNC_USER_NAME% )
change their group settings).
dit(bf(fake super)) Setting "fake super = yes" for a module causes the
-daemon side to behave as if the bf(--fake-user) command-line option had
+daemon side to behave as if the bf(--fake-super) command-line option had
been specified. This allows the full attributes of a file to be stored
without having to have the daemon actually running as root.