rsync - May 2008 - Rsync with daemon over SSH on port 22 not daemon port

Hi gurus!

First time post:

Scenario want to talk to daemon locked behind a firewall using encrypted
transfer of files.

Have daemon setup on port 10001.

Do not have NC, do not have root access. 

Client command : 

rsync -avzul -e "ssh -vvv -l username" /home/users/blah/
rsync://lrem02:10001::/live

As you can see the connection is set to talk to lrem02 on port 10001 however i
want to encrypt transfer so i assumed i could do the following:

rsync -avzul -e "ssh -vvv -l username -L 10001:lrem01:22"
/home/users/blah/ rsync://lrem02:10001::/live

However this doesnt work as i perhaps need to config server side :(

How can i transfer to a non standard SSH daemon port (10001) with non-root and
non access to alter the init default files (873).

All help appreciated im assuming my connection is been ignored -e as doesnt make
sense i have tried 60 ways id say --rsh=ssh etc but need to turn too the
experts!

Many thanks info appreciated...

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On Mon 05 May 2008, markcliff@gmail.com wrote:
> Have daemon setup on port 10001.
> 
> Do not have NC, do not have root access. 
> 
> Client command : 
> 
> rsync -avzul -e "ssh -vvv -l username" /home/users/blah/
rsync://lrem02:10001::/live
Firstly, this syntax is not quite correct, the manpage says:

    rsync [OPTION...] SRC... rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/DEST

That would translate to:

    rsync://lrem02:10001/live

i.e. don't confuse the two ways of specifying a daemon transfer
(rsync://host/module and host::module)

Secondly, if you have a daemon on 10001, why are you using ssh?
Alternatively, if you have ssh access, why use a daemon?

> How can i transfer to a non standard SSH daemon port (10001) with non-root
and non access to alter the init default files (873).
If you have an _ssh_ daemon on 10001, then use:

    rsync -e 'ssh -p 10001' ...

You could also make an entry for the remote host in ~/.ssh/config , like
so:

Host remotehost
    Port 10001

That will then be used as the default ssh port for that remotehost.


Paul Slootman

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:24:04AM -0400, markcliff@gmail.com
wrote:
> rsync -avzul -e "ssh -vvv -l username" /home/users/blah/
rsync://lrem02:10001::/live
That tells rsync to start up a single-use rsync daemon on the remote
system after logging in via ssh.  Daemon port numbers are completely
ignored when you request a single-use rsync daemon.

See the firewall section of the FAQ, which links to the firewall page:

    http://rsync.samba.org/FAQ.html#6
    http://rsync.samba.org/firewall.html

Method 5 on the firewall page covers using ssh to open a tunnel to the
remote port.  And no, you can't have rsync run that ssh command, since
the -e option is only for specifying how rsync should run the rsync
command on the remote system, not for running a auxiliary command to
start a forwarded port (and rsync needs to open a socket connection
without using a remote shell in a port-forwarding scenario).

..wayne..