On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Raul Miller wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 08:26:49PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > There may be security concerns that would inhibit running an rsync server on > > the archive, I have no idea about this issue. > > Anonymous rsync is possible (create an account which has only rsync in > its path). It's also possible to make it chrooted by providing a wrapper > and pulling a stunt at signon time.
Rsync also has unholy speed and resource problems. All the Debian.org servers have a 10 connection limit on rsync for exactly that reason. rsync was not ment for a 1 off type of thing. Someone needs to create a low overhead server that implements the rsync method - perhaps encapsulted in something like HTTP.. Jason
