rsync - Nov 2007 - rsync as daemon doesnt use secrets file but sshd

Hi all!
I have a problem configuring rsync as daemon:

This is my rsync.conf:

log file = /var/log/rsync.log
list = yes
uid = nobody
gid = nobody
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
[section]
comment = Great stuff from remote.acme.com
path = /home/repos
auth users = marco
hosts allow = *
hosts deny = *

This is my /etc/rsyncd.secrets

marco:marco

This is the secrets file permission:
[root@server marco]# ls -l /etc/rsyncd.secrets
-rw-------  1 root root 12 Nov 12 17:01 /etc/rsyncd.secrets

This is /etc/xinetd.d/rsync

service rsync
{
        disable = no
        socket_type     = stream
        wait            = no
        user            = root
        server          = /usr/bin/rsync
        server_args     = --daemon
        log_on_failure  += USERID
}



The problem is that I can not rsync from a client: it seems rsync is using
pam and system users for logging. I've tried to enable the user marco as
system user and I can login!!! So I think rsync can not authenticate using
the secret file.

user@client:~$ rsync -vv marco@server::section
opening connection using ssh -l marco server rsync --server --sender -vv .
FxS
marco@server's password:
Permission denied, please try again.

Into /var/log/messages I have
Nov 12 17:10:46 server sshd(pam_unix)[16221]: check pass; user unknown
Nov 12 17:10:46 server sshd(pam_unix)[16221]: authentication failure;
logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=10.0.0.34


What should I check?


Thanks

Marco
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On Monday 12 November 2007 18:17, Marco Strullato wrote:
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> user@client:~$ rsync -vv marco@server::section
> opening connection using ssh -l marco server rsync --server --sender -vv .
Is appears to be a client issue - where does it pick up the -e ssh from? Check 
for aliases in your shell or global client defaults for your distribution.

The command feedback is as if you were including the "-e ssh" argument
to
rsync.

Try:

$ export LOGNAME=marco
$ export RSYNC_PASSWORD=yourpassword
$ mkdir tmp
$ rsync -avv server::section tmp/

-A

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 05:17:01PM +0100, Marco Strullato
wrote:
> user@client:~$ rsync -vv marco@server::section
> opening connection using ssh -l marco server rsync --server --sender -vv .
This is incongruous.  The first line has 2-colons (for daemon mode), but
the connect line is connecting via ssh without the --daemon option, so
rsync just saw a single colon.  You should figure out why that colon
disappeared.

..wayne..