--passord-file doesn't work

[tim.conway at philips.com]

sorry for slow reply.  busy.
my point is that you must NOT use the rsyncd.secrets file as the password 
file.
the password file is to be a file contining a single line, which is only 
the password.
rsync won't parse the secrets file to determine what password goes with 
what user.  It expects to be told the password, either interactively, 
through the password-file, or via the $RSYNC_PASSWORD environment 
variable.

Tim Conway
tim.conway at philips.com
303.682.4917
Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC
1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D
Longmont, CO 80501
Available via SameTime Connect within Philips, n9hmg on AIM
perl -e 'print pack(nnnnnnnnnnnn, 
19061,29556,8289,28271,29800,25970,8304,25970,27680,26721,25451,25970), 
".\n" '
"There are some who call me.... Tim?"




Francois Chenais <francois at chenais.net>
Sent by: rsync-admin at lists.samba.org
05/08/2002 09:00 AM

 
        To:     Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS at AMEC
        cc:     rsync at lists.samba.org
rsync-admin at lists.samba.org
        Subject:        Re: --passord-file doesn't work
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On Wed, 8 May 2002 08:45:06 -0600
tim.conway at philips.com wrote:

> --password-file= works just fine.  You're using the files designated by 
> "secrets file" option in rsyncd.conf.
> 
That's what I have written on the bottom of my previous mails

tamtam:/etc# rsync --password-file=/etc/rsyncd.secrets backupcvs at cvs::cvs/ 

@ERROR: auth failed on module cvs
rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at io.c(143)
.

                 All seems OK

tamtam:/etc# ls -ltr /etc/rsyncd.secrets 
-rw-------    1 root     root           23 May  7 18:12 
/etc/rsyncd.secrets

tamtam:/etc# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)




                 François

PS for tim: [CYGWIN rsync] I'll do the test next week because of hollyday 
:-)
                 8 May : 2nd World War victory
                 9 May : Ascension
       10 May : Go and work for just a day ? no :-)



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