On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:50:01AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > I guess I could sum up the prob as: Is it possible to anonymous ssh rsync
> > from a site that allows anonymous rsync but seems to ask for password for
> > any ssh connection ?
> 
> Yes, simply open port 873 outgoing on your firewall and do
> 
>   rsync download.sourceforge.net::
> 
> You can't use ssh to download from a site where you don't have an ssh
> account, unless they've created an anonymous ssh account.  (OpenBSD do
> this, I think, to make sure that the transfers are not interefered
> with in flight.)

SourceForge does not have this. Rsync is by anonymous/873 only.

-drew

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