@ERROR: access denied

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 ben-incomum at pendrell.textdrive.com wrote:

> I'm trying to set up an rsync daemon on my OS X machine to sync my
> remote subversion repositories. My config file /etc/rsyncd.conf looks
> like this:
>
> motd file = /etc/motd
> max connections = 25
> syslog facility = local3
>
> [repositories]
>  comment = Subversion Repositories
>  path = /usr/local/repositories
>  read only = no
>  list = yes
>  hosts allow = 127.0.0.1
>  auth users = username
>  secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
>
> However running "rsync username at localhost::repositories" I get:
>
> @ERROR: access denied to repositories from localhost (::1)
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (71 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(189)
>
> What am I missing here?

The username:password line in /etc/rsyncd.secrets?
Or the
    export RSYNC_PASSWORD=...
setting before invocing the rsync command?

Cheers -e
-- 
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)