@ERROR access denied

[Hardy Merrill]

Ok, I think I've got it narrowed down.

1) First, comment out both 'hosts allow' and 'auth users',
save it, kill and restart the rsync daemon, and try your
rsync again.  Hopefully that will work.

2) Uncomment the 'hosts allow' line, save, kill and
restart daemon, and try rsync again - you will probably
get the same error you had before.  Your hosts allow line
looked like this:

  hosts allow	= fisdev pgiprd


3) Now, change the values of that hosts allow to be complete
domain names, like 'fisdev.your.domain.com' and
'pgiprd.your.domain.com' and see if that works now.

If you're not sure what the correct domain name is, on the
rsync server machine (this works on linux - not sure about
sco), do 'host fisdev' and see what it spits back.

According to 'man rsyncd.conf', you can use dotted quad ip
addresses, host names as determined by reverse dns, and
a few other things.

4) Once you have 'hosts allow' working ok, then move on to
'auth users' - my thought is that that will go smoothly once
the 'hosts allow' works right.

Again, please post your results.

-- 
Hardy Merrill
Red Hat, Inc.


Hugh E Cruickshank [hugh at forsoft.com] wrote:
> Hi Hardy:
> 
> Nice catch - I missed that one when I reviewed the man page. 
> Unfortunately it made no difference. I have also tried moving
> the module params from the global section to the module section
> but that also made no difference - exactly same messages.
> 
> Just to keep things straight, here is my latest rsyncd.conf:
> 
> <-----------------------------------------------------------------
> #
> # Global parameters:
> #
> #motd file	= /var/rsync/rsyncd.motd
> log file	= /var/rsync/rsyncd.log
> pid file	= /var/rsync/rsyncd.pid
> #syslog facility= daemon
> #socket options	=
> 
> #
> # Default values for module paramaters:
> #
> #use chroot	= no
> #max connections	= 0
> #lock file	= /var/rsync/rsyncd.lock
> #read only	= no
> #list		= yes
> #uid		= 300
> #gid		= 200
> #hosts allow	= fisdev pgiprd
> #auth users	= root hugh
> 
> #
> # Module "BAK":
> #
> [bak]
> comment		= Default remote backup repository
> path		= /bak
> read only	= no
> uid		= 300
> gid		= 200
> hosts allow	= fisdev pgiprd
> auth users	= root hugh
> ----------------------------------------------------------------->
> 
> Thanks for all your help.
> 
> Regards, Hugh
> 
> From: Hardy Merrill Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 11:30
> > 
> > Hugh, I did a quick test with 2.5.5, and here's what made it
> > work for me - the 'read only' parameter.  Here's my daemon
> > /etc/rsyncd.conf file:
> > 
> > log file = /var/log/rsync
> > # this is a comment
> > [rsync-test]
> >         uid=test
> >         gid=test
> >         read only=no
> >         path=/test_rsync
> > 
> > it didn't work until I added the 'read only=no'.  Here's a
> > blurb from the rsync manpage:
> > 
> >     read only
> >            The "read only" option determines whether clients
> >            will  be  able to  upload  files  or  not.  If
> >            "read  only"  is  true then any attempted uploads
> >            will  fail.  If  "read  only"  is  false  then
> >            uploads will be possible if file permissions on
> >            the server allow them. The default is for all modules
> >            to be read only.
> > 
> > Give that a try and post back your results.
> > 
> > HTH.
> > -- 
> > Hardy Merrill
> > Red Hat, Inc.
> > 
> 
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Hardy Merrill
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