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...l root rsync-daemon-invocation... This is Very Wrong. It should be: ssh -l root ali rsync-daemon-invocation... or better still just: ssh root@ali rsync-daemon-invocation... i.e. not have rsync try to be smart about the host: prefix to the target. I've hacked my wrapper to cope with this misinvocation, but even a transient glance at the ssh manual entry SYNOPSIS section should show this is wrong, and of course in violation of all the usual UNIX command line conventions where the options preceed the arguments. I can only assume some loose parsing in the ssh command itself has permitted this to g...