Comments on: How to Rsync from Remote Server to Synology

By: Paul Ooi

Paul Ooi — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 01:23:31 +0000

@Paolo, this is definitely useful! Thanks.

By: Paolo

Paolo — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 22:25:32 +0000

I know that this is a very old post, in any case to become root I followed this simple instructions:
http://louiechristensen.dk/simple-step-by-step-guide-to-getting-root-access-on-a-synology-disk-station/

Hope can be useful.

By: Mo Beigi

Mo Beigi — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 16:34:48 +0000

This is awesome thanks for sharing. I couldn’t quite SSH as root myself but managed to SSH as the admin user and sudo whenever I needed permissions. I had to make this folder `/var/services/homes/admin/.ssh` so that the script could save its known_hosts. After that it all works nicely, thanks!

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 01:29:08 +0000

Nothing in the startup of the Synology NAS software ever told me the password for user Admin. Thus it is impossible to log in as root. I changed the password to user admin but the only way I can become root is via sudo. Your example doesn’t show you logged in as root, it shows that you created your key files in /users/takizo/.ssh/ So what is the login as root instruction for?

What user should create the key files? Does it need to be the one that owns the shared folder? Does it matter? You are very unclear about what is actually required. In the Task Schedule section you say “4. User choose “root” or any user you prefer”. Doesn’t it need to match the user the key was created for?

You say “We create a folder name “scripts”, and the file will be placed in synology” . What is “synology”. Is that a directory name, or do you actually mean the scripts directory just created on the NAS drive? Very unclear.