On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 13:03, Andrew wrote:
> So I'm having difficulties getting rsyncd to do authentication
> properly.
>
> here's what happens:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ rsync rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/testu
> Password:
> @ERROR: auth failed on module testu
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (89 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(190)
>
> not so great. I can't seem to find anything in google about this
> particular error.
>
> here is the relevant parts of /etc/rsyncd.conf:
>
> hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
>
> # another module here
>
> [testu]
> comment = thing for testu
> path = /home/testu
> read only = no
> uid = testu
> auth users = testu
> secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
>
> There are some other modules after this one and one before. I can give
> you the whole file if people think it's relevant.
>
> here is rsyncd.secrets:
>
> olivian:password
> testu:testu
>
> testu is also a user which I've just added using adduser. Presumably
> the user needs to be present in /etc/passwd etc. for the 'uid'
> directive to work. Does it have to be there for 'auth users' to work?
> I suspect not.
>
> Apparently you also need line breaks after the lines in the secrets
> file. And I do.
>
> As far as I can see, I'm doing everything correctly (although
> obviously I'm probably not) and this is just about the simplest
> possible authenticated module setup. rsync works fine without
> authentication: if I remove the 'auth users' you get a directory
> listing like you'd expect.
>
> clues, anyone?
