From 1a288c06d9c12c1d5fc754d6b95a2e61bf5a0250 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 13:44:09 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Document how a leading comma changes the gid parsing. --- rsyncd.conf.yo | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/rsyncd.conf.yo b/rsyncd.conf.yo index 3076a492..c041cf93 100644 --- a/rsyncd.conf.yo +++ b/rsyncd.conf.yo @@ -408,6 +408,12 @@ supplementary groups. The default for a non-super-user is to not change any group attributes (and indeed, your OS may not allow a non-super-user to try to change their group settings). +The specified list is normally split into tokens based on spaces and commas. +However, if the list starts with a comma, then the list is only split on +commas, which allows a group name to contain a space. In either case any +leading and/or trailing whitespace is removed from the tokens and empty tokens +are ignored. + dit(bf(daemon uid)) This parameter specifies a uid under which the daemon will run. The daemon usually runs as user root, and when this is left unset the user is left unchanged. See also the "uid" parameter. -- 2.47.2