Re: [gentoo-user] rsyncd problem...

[John Jolet]

On May 31, 2006, at 2:57 AM, Anthony Roy wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to get an rsync server running on my Gentoo server box in
> order to run backups to the server from my other machines. I have a
> very simple rsyncd.conf file, (see below), and from what I can tell, I
> should be able to rsync some files across from a different box.
>
> The command I am using to rsync from a different box is:
>
> rsync -avz test.xml 192.168.0.100:rsync
>
> I have also tried the following with the same results:
>
> rsync test.xml 192.168.0.100:rsync
>
> The result is that I am continually prompted for a password. As far as
> I can tell from the rsyncd.conf no password should be required (which
> is fine as the rsync port cannot be reached from outside the
> intranet).
>
> The rsyncd:
>
> # This line is required by the /etc/init.d/rsyncd script
> pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
> use chroot = yes
> read only = false
> log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
>
> # Simple example for enabling your own local rsync server
> [rsync]
>        path = /srv/rsync
>        comment = Main Rsync Server
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> --
> Ant...
>
> --
> Anthony Roy

unless you say otherwise, rsync uses ssh.  unless you set it up to  
use key authentication, ssh will require a password.  what i do in  
such instances, is set up a special user with read access to the  
files to be backed up, create a key with ssh-geygen on the backup  
server.  then on the server to be backed up, for that user put it  in  
~/.ssh/authorized_keys.  with the rsync command you can force it to  
use a particular credential to auth to ssh with.
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