"invalid uid rsync" (was Re: rsync HELP!!!) (get a clue about writing Subject lines)

[Dave Dykstra]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:40:58PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 22 Apr 2002, Sonu Singh <sonu_mtl at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > i get the following error:
> > @ERROR: invalid uid rsync
> 
> You probably have a line like
> 
>   uid = rsync
> 
> in the server's rsyncd.conf, but there's no such user defined on the
> server.  If you're using a chroot jail, then the passwd file inside
> the jail does not contain the uid; you should copy it in or specify
> the uid by number.

Did you mean rsync's call to chroot, or a chroot around the whole
invocation of rsync?  Rsync's chroot doesn't happen until after the "uid ="
in rsyncd.conf is processed, so that still works without copying in the
passwd file. 

- Dave