[unmaintained, NOT SAFE] rrsync replacement without perl, useful for limited environment like CoreOS

rrysnc.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Copyright (C) 2004 Joe Smith <js-cgi@inwap.com>
# Copyright (C) 2004-2015 Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>
# Copyright (C) 2016-2018 YOSHIOKA Takuma <tashioka.256@gmail.com>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.


# This script is based on `support/rrsync` perl script in rsync-3.1.2.

USAGE="Use command=\"$0 [-ro|-wo] SUBDIR\"
	in front of lines in ${HOME}/.ssh/authorized_keys"
LOGFILE="${HOME}/rrsync.log"
CMDNAME="$0"


# Log the given message.
die() {
	DATETIME="$(LANG=C date '+%F %T')"
	echo "[$DATETIME] $CMDNAME: $1" >>"$LOGFILE"
	echo >>"$LOGFILE"
	exit 2
}

# Die with the given error message.
debug() {
	DATETIME="$(LANG=C date '+%F %T')"
	echo "[$DATETIME][DEBUG] $1" | tr '\n' '\0' | sed -e 's/\0/\n[DEBUG]'"$DATETIME"'/g' >>"$LOGFILE"
}


# Get "only" option.
# It would be "w" for `-wo` (write only), "r" for `-ro` (read only), or empty string (neither `-ro` nor `-wo`).
ONLY=""
while [ "x$1" = "x-ro" -o "x$1" = "x-wo" ] ; do
	if [ "x$1" = "x-ro" ] ; then
		if [ "x$ONLY" = "xw" ] ; then
			die "the -ro and -wo options conflict."
		fi
		ONLY="r"
		shift
	else
		if [ "x$ONLY" = "xr" ] ; then
			die "the -ro and -wo options conflict."
		fi
		ONLY="w"
		shift
	fi
done
# Now "$ONLY" has "r", "w" or "".

# Ensure the subdirectory is given.
if [ $# -lt 1 ] ; then
	die "No subdirectory specified.\n${USAGE}"
fi
ALLOWED_DIR="$1"
cd "$ALLOWED_DIR" || die 'Failed to change current directory'

# Ensure the rrsync is invoked via sshd.
if [ -z "$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND" ] ; then
	die "Not invoked via sshd.\n${USAGE}"
fi

# Ensure the rrsync is invoked in server mode via remote rsync.
if ! echo "$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND" | grep -sqE '^rsync\s+--server' ; then
	die "SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND='$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND' is not 'rsync --server' or '--server' is not specified first."
fi

# Check whether the rsync server should be sender or receiver.
if echo "$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND" | grep -sqE '^rsync\s+--server\s+--sender\s' ; then
	# The local rsync is sender mode, i.e. files should be sent from local to remote.
	if [ "x$ONLY" = "xw" ] ; then
		die "Sending to read-only server not allowed."
	fi
else
	# The local rsync is receiver mode, i.e. files should be sent from remote to local.
	if [ "x$ONLY" = "xr" ] ; then
		die "Reading to write-only server not allowed."
	fi
fi

# Command line sanity check.
set -f
set -- $SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND
# For each argument:
while [ $# -ge 1 ] ; do
	# Collapse continuous slashes in the argument.
	ARG="$(echo "$1" | sed -e 's!///*!/!g')"
	# Ensure the argument has no ".." as path component.
	if echo "$ARG" | grep -sqE '(^(-[a-zA-Z0-9-]+=?)?|/)\.\.(/|$)' ; then
		debug "command line: ${SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND}\ndangerous argument: \`$1\`"
		die "Do not use .. in option argument, anchor the path at the root of your restricted dir."
	fi
	# Ensure the argument has no absolute path.
	if echo "$ARG" | grep -sq '^/' ; then
		debug "command line: ${SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND}\ndangerous argument: \`$1\`"
		die "Do not use absolute path in argument, anchor the path at the root of your restricted dir."
	fi
	shift
done

# Arguments are safe!
# Execute rsync.
exec $SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND

Hi! I was wondering if this code was open source, and if so, under what license you like to share it?

Thanks!
Darrell

@dbishop
This script is based on rrsync distributed in rsync package by samba project and it is licensed under GPLv3 (See rsync's license).
I don't understand GPLv3 very well, but I think rrsync.sh script should inherit GPL license.

Sorry for my late reply.

Please note that this script is NOT safe without further modification. rsync 3 introduced the --protect-args (-s) parameter which would no longer send the path as part of the rsync command line arguments. With that parameter set this script would accept any path.

The original script explicitly disallows the -s parameter. See https://git.samba.org/?p=rsync.git;a=commitdiff;h=2e8259bb0bc5ffe64df9075ef8f1e8050caf951c.

It also ignores any of the long parameters.

Thank you, noted that the script is unmaintained (at least now).
I might try to fix the problem if I can understand the problem correctly, but it is not guaranteed...

The code is licensed under GPLv3, feel free to modify and distribute the script if you want!