rsync - Mar 2011 - After successfull passwordless ssh login, unable to do rsync

Hello everybody.

I got a strange problem, which I hope to solve with your help.

I'm doing "remote backups" using rsync in an ssh tunnel. In the
last
setup I realized, something is driving me crazy and I can't find *what*
the problem is.
I managed to successfully login via ssh in a "passwordless" way (by
means of RSA-keys).
After this step is done and I'm logged into the remote host, I can type:

rsync rsync://localhost

and I get the correct reply:

Dati

Whenever I type 

rsync rsync://localhost/Dati

I get prompted for the user password. This shouldn't be happening, so
where do I have to look at?

This is my /etc/rsyncd.conf:

#motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd
#log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
lock file = /var/run/rsync.lock
use chroot = no
[Dati]
path =  /volume1/Dati
read only = no
transfer logging = yes

And following is /etc/rsyncd.secrets

root:onOYcgV3xuMZA|1J0vxxUopcg
Is there anything wrong?

Kind regards,
Flavio Boniforti

PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL
Via Ballerini 21
6600 Locarno
Switzerland
Phone: +41 91 751 68 81
Fax: +41 91 751 69 14
URL: http://www.piramide.ch
E-mail: flavio at piramide.ch

"rsync rsync://host" is different from "rsync -e ssh path
host:/path"

using ssh, you want the 2nd form

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Boniforti Flavio <flavio at piramide.ch>
wrote:
> Hello everybody.
>
> I got a strange problem, which I hope to solve with your help.
>
> I'm doing "remote backups" using rsync in an ssh tunnel. In
the last
> setup I realized, something is driving me crazy and I can't find *what*
> the problem is.
> I managed to successfully login via ssh in a "passwordless" way
(by
> means of RSA-keys).
> After this step is done and I'm logged into the remote host, I can
type:
>
> rsync rsync://localhost
>
> and I get the correct reply:
>
> Dati
>
> Whenever I type
>
> rsync rsync://localhost/Dati
>
> I get prompted for the user password. This shouldn't be happening, so
> where do I have to look at?
>
> This is my /etc/rsyncd.conf:
>
> #motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd
> #log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
> pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
> lock file = /var/run/rsync.lock
> use chroot = no
> [Dati]
> path = ?/volume1/Dati
> read only = no
> transfer logging = yes
>
> And following is /etc/rsyncd.secrets
>
> root:onOYcgV3xuMZA|1J0vxxUopcg>
> Is there anything wrong?
>
> Kind regards,
> Flavio Boniforti
>
> PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL
> Via Ballerini 21
> 6600 Locarno
> Switzerland
> Phone: +41 91 751 68 81
> Fax: +41 91 751 69 14
> URL: http://www.piramide.ch
> E-mail: flavio at piramide.ch
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Hello again...
> > I have to say that on a similar setup, I'm succeeding with 
> the command 
> > I told you before.
> 
> Then you are using the rsync daemon method, and you will have 
> to check on the server side to allow access without passwords 
> in /etc/rsyncd.conf, or make use of the environment variables 
> to pass the password to rsync on the client side.
Server side is actually allowing me to passwordlessly connect to the ssh
daemon.
How is this to be related to rsyncd?

Kind regards,
Flavio Boniforti

PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL
Via Ballerini 21
6600 Locarno
Switzerland
Phone: +41 91 751 68 81
Fax: +41 91 751 69 14
URL: http://www.piramide.ch
E-mail: flavio at piramide.ch