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On Thu, Jun 26, 2025, 5:36 PM Robert Moskowitz via users <
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>
>
> On 6/26/25 5:26 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM Robert Moskowitz via users
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I *AM* running rsyncd on the target server.
> >>
> >> If I provide:
> >>
> >> rsync -ah --stats /home/rgm/r/ rsync://rgm@homestor/rgm/r/
> >>
> >> I get prompted for the password in the /etc/rsyncd.secrets file, and it
> >> works.
> >>
> >> I now create a local file ~/rsync.pswd with chmod 440, and run:
> >>
> >> rsync -ah --password-file=/home/rgm/rsync.pswd --stats /home/rgm/r/
> >> rsync://rgm@homestor/rgm/r/
> >>
> >> it fails with:
> >>
> >> @ERROR: auth failed on module rgm
> >> rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
> >> main.c(1850) [sender=3.4.1]
> >>
> >> rsync.pswd format is:
> >>
> >> rgm:password
> >>
> >> where password is what is in the server's rsyncd.secrets and what I
> >> provided to the interactive prompt.
> >>
> >> What am I missing here?
> > Form rsync(1) man page:
> >
> >      --password-file
> >
> >        This option allows you to provide a password in a file for
> >        accessing an rsync daemon. The file must not be world readable. It
> >        should contain just the password as a single line.
>
> I read that description a number of times, and just did not catch that
> ONLY the password is in the file....
>
>
> Sheesh.
>
> Well now it works!
>
> Thanks
>
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