12May
Is running rsync as root problematic?
Is there a security risk with running rsync as root to copy potentially malicious files? Or for that matter with any read command like cp, cat, du?
Background:
I'm moving data from various systems onto my new proxmox host (could be any debian based distro) for centralized storage. So I plugged the hdds into my new server and mounted them read-only to copy all files over to my new storage array with rsync. Among this data are files of family members which I don't control and that could have been compromised (not likely but possible).
Is there a problem here or am I way too paranoid?
