RSYNC server for docker

Description

This is a lightweight RSYNC server in a docker container.

This image provides:

• an alpine base image
• RSYNC server
• User creation based on env variable
• Home directory based on env variable
• Automatic UID detection based on home permissions
• Ability to run in chroot
• Password authentication
• Hosts allowed / denied rules
• Extensibility through additional sh scripts (more users creation, tweak...)

How to use

Provided example

A full example is provided in the docker-compose file

git clone https://github.com/mickaelperrin/docker-rsync-server.git
cd docker-rsync-server
docker-compose up

Generic example

version: '2'

services:
  # Example application container, this is where your data is.
  app:
    image: alpine:3.5
    # Simulate an application server with an endless loop.
    command: sh -c 'while true; do sleep 10; done';
    volumes:
      - ./data:/data
  # RSYNCD Server
  rsyncd:
    build: .
    image: mickaelperrin/rsyncd-server:latest
    environment:
      # REQUIRED: For user/password authentication
      - USERNAME=sftp
      - PASSWORD=password
      # REQUIRED: Should be the same as the volume mapping of app container
      - VOLUME_PATH=/data
      # OPTIONAL: If you want to restrict access to the volume in read only mode. (default false)
      - READ_ONLY=false
      # OPTIONAL: If you want to chroot the use of rsync. Be sure that your directory structure is compatible.
      # See documentation
      # (default no)
      - CHROOT=yes
      # OPTIONAL: customize the volume name in rsync (default: volume)
      - VOLUME_NAME=data
      # OPTIONAL: restrict connection from (default: 0.0.0.0/0)
      - HOSTS_ALLOW=0.0.0.0/0
      # OPTIONAL: define the user name or user ID that file transfers to and from that module should take place
      # (default set to UID owner of VOLUME_PATH)
      # - OWNER_ID = 1000
      # OPTIONAL: specifies one or more group names/IDs that will be used when accessing the module. The first one will be the default group, and any extra ones be set as supplemental groups.
      # (default set to GID owner of VOLUME_PATH)
      # - GROUP_ID = 1000
    ports:
      - 18873:873
    volumes_from:
      - app

Configuration

Configuration is done through environment variables.

Required:

• USERNAME: the name to be use for login.
• PASSWORD: the password to login.
• VOLUME_PATH: the home of the user (can be a volume mounted from another container like in the example).

Optionnal:

• CHROOT (default no): if set to yes, enable chroot of user (prevent access to other folders than its home folder). Be aware, that currently this feature can leads to unexpected results depending on your directory structure and permissions.
• VOLUME_NAME (default volume): the name of the volume in rsync.
• OWNER_ID: the uid of the user. If not set automatically grabbed from the uid of the owner of the VOLUME_PATH.
• HOSTS_ALLOW (default 0.0.0.0/0): restrict hosts connections.

Disclaimer

Besides the usual disclaimer in the license, we want to specifically emphasize that the authors, and any organizations the authors are associated with, can not be held responsible for data-loss caused by possible malfunctions of Docker Magic Sync.

License

GPLv2 or any later GPL version.