I am a little confused regarding the above files. As I read the man pages, the passwd file is for the password of the user as which the rsync server runs - on the server machine. The secrets files (AFAIK) contain the name:password for the valid users of rsync. Some problems that arose ("address family not supported") went away after I updated both this file and the password file. These problems arose as /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow were copied from one machine to another. After everything worked fine again, I tried to recreate the problems in an orderly fashion, so that I could document symptoms and cures, but after copying /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow again (so that both sides had the same password), everything worked fine - even after restarting the rsync daemon and later rebooting! The situation now (passwords truncated of course) is: Edelfelt Tazdevil rsync.passwd A B rsync.secrets root:B root:A The actual root password on both machines is now A and transfers work in both directions - which doesn't seem right to me! I'd appreciate any explanation - grateful if you could include me explicitly on the reply as I'm not in the list. Many thanks, /Sam Sam Sexton <mailto:sam.sexton@reuters.com> Reuters Coventry Automated Dealing Technologies Phone: +44 24 7625 6562 Fax: +44 24 7655 5203 --------------------------------------------------------------- - Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com Get closer to the financial markets with Reuters Messaging - for more information and to register, visit http://www.reuters.com/messaging Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.