similar to: how about auth users without a password?

Hi everybody - I'm trying to write a Perl wrapper for some rsync tasks that need doing. Problem is, there's some sort of odd interaction going on between Perl and the daemon mode communication for the rsync client, and I'm at my wit's end in trying to figure it out. Here's the Perl script: #####################################################

For some reason when using -owner -group my files end up being nobody:nobody on the destination..? This is Solaris 9. Jeremy S. Loukinas

I have configured my rcyncd.conf file and it is stored in /etc. Whne I type in the command rsync --daemon, nothing happens. Whats wrong? I type in netstat to see if I can see port 873 being used but there is nothing. Here is my conf file log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log [home] path = /vmfs/Storage comment = My Home Area list = yes read only = no I am new to linux and rsync. Using

I have rsync daemon running on a fedora core 4 box that I am trying to use as a backup server for my web sites. I dont have shell access on my web host so will need to run a cron job to do the backups, which is what I want to do anyway. For testing purposes however I am using a php script using the "system()" function so I am getting some feedback. In my rsyncd.conf file I have the

I am trying to compile rsync-2.6.0 on BSD/OS 5.0 patched to current level. gcc version 2.95.3 I ran configure: ./configure --with-rsh=rsh This is the only error message given by configure: checking sys/sysctl.h usability... no checking sys/sysctl.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: sys/sysctl.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: sys/sysctl.h: check for missing prerequisite

I'm using rsync to mirror my Sharp SL-5500 Linux PDA home directory to my Linux desktop over a TCP/IP-on-USB link. I'm running the following command as root on the 5500: /home/QtPalmtop/bin/rsync -av /home/zaurus \ 192.168.129.1::zaurus I'm running the rsync server out of xinetd. I have verified with 'ps' that the server, when it starts, is running as root. The files are

Is it possible to configure rsync in server mode, to gain access to root protected files, without the user having to log in as root through ssh? I'd prefer to login as a regular user through ssh and access an rysnc server on the host that's running as root. As far as I can tell, however, that's not possible...am I wrong?

Hello, I'm desperately trying to have a RSync server work on a Windows 2003 Standard Server. All the documentation available I have found applies to Windows NT/2000/XP I don't know whether 2003 works differently from the previous Windows. I have installed the cwrsync package. The RSyncServer Service is running fine under a user account named cwrsync. A successful Telnet on the port 873

Hi, My ssh set up, on both 'work' and 'home' machines uses the private-public key authentication (key uses non-empty passphrase). So from the 'home' shell prompt the following works without prompting to password or passphrase: rsync -avz --delete -e ssh remote.work.machine:publicats $HOME/work >From cron, however, I am prompted for a password, though. I have seen

Hello all - I am running rsync 2.5.6 on two FreeBSD 5.0 machines. I have experimented with running rsync using ssh, with command lines like the following: rsync -rv --progress jimbo@192.68.100.10:/usr/share/smbshare /usr/home/jimbo And also with running rsync as a daemon on the master server, and syncing to it from the other machine like so: rsync -rv --progress 192.168.100.10::test

Hi, I'm trying to setup automatic sync of files over SSH from node2 to node1. node2 is the "server" and node1 is the "client". I have setup rsync like this on the nodes which runs AIX (4.3.3 and 5.1): 1. Installed rsync from Linux Toolbox (rsync-2.5.4-1.aix4.3.ppc.rpm) on both nodes. 2. Added following to both nodes /etc/services file: rsync 873/tcp 3. Added

I have setup a Rysnc server in Mandrake 9.1 When I add a auth user into my Rsync.conf and rsync.secrets, it do not work, everytime it shows [root@html]# rsync chris@mandrake82::XXXXX/.html/. / Password: @ERROR: auth failed on module XXXXX rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (89 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165) This is my rsync's

Hi, I've configured 'backuppc' to transfer files via rsyncd, with enabled checksums. Whith one of the shares I get the error (in syslog): --------------------------------------------------------------------- robbe rsyncd[2183]: ERROR: out of memory in receive_sums [sender] robbe rsyncd[2183]: rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util2.c(106)

It seems to me that rsyncd.conf does not provide an option akin to rsync's --one-file-system command line argument. If that is true, it seems like a bug of ommission, as I now face a use case where I need it. Is there maybe some technical reason for the ommission? Thanks, -- Lester Hightower

Hello. In my setup I collected logs from many hosts using ssh + rsync. It worked fine untill I upgraded OpenSSH from version 5.0p1 to 5.1p1 on those hosts running Slackware Linux. After upgrade nothing works as before. When I try to get logs connection breaks with the following message in syslog on the server side: Aug 4 15:34:44 srvhost sshd[8130]: Accepted publickey for user from

I rsync a remote destination which has a daily network interruption of round about 5 minutes. Is it possible to configure rsync to wait in such a case this 5 minutes and continue the rsync as soon as the network connection is established again? I use rsyncd with perl::rsync (backuppc) through a ssh tunnel. Thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic

Hello Regarding ownership on the destination: rsync's man page indicates that when synchronizing files to a remote host, -o implies the --numeric-ids option, which makes perfect sense aince the named users/groups may not exist on the destination host. The problem I have is that the files created on the destination still appear to be owned by the local user (server1) on the rsync

I've just tried upgrading to cwrsync 2.1.0 (Rsync version 3.0.0 protocol version 30) between 2 Windows XP Pro sp2 machine across the Internet. I used: SET CYGWIN=nontsec SET HOME=c:\cwrsync\bin C:\cwrsync\bin\rsync -za -u -P --delete --recursive /cygdrive/c/test2/ stuart@test.address.co.uk::test/ When I run the above batch script on the remote machine I get this odd output.

This is my first post so first of all I will say hello to everyone. I have rsync configured and working properly on my local network however when I try to connect from a remote host (one located in a different state) the connection times out. I was wondering if there was another way to set the timeout besides in the rsyncd.conf file? As I said the connection works fine on the internal lan, but

from a security perspective this is bad. think of a backup provider who wants to make rsyncd modules available to the end users so they can push backups to the server. do you think that such server is secure if all users are allowed to open up an ssh shell to secure their rsync transfer ? ok, you can restrict the ssh connection, but you open up a hole and you need to think twice to make it secure