access denied from rsync server

Fri Apr 7 00:58:43 GMT 2006

--- Martin Jeppesen <d2xdt2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can someone help me out, if I want to connect to a rsync server, and
> download / from it?
> 
> It is started in /etc/rc.local by
> su -c "rsync --daemon"
> 
> and /etc/rsyncd.conf contains:
> 
> log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
> pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
> lock file = /var/run/rsync.lock
> 
> [tlf]
>    path = /
>    comment = export
>    uid = root
>    gid = root
>    read only = yes
>    hosts allow = 192.168.0.12
>    list = yes
>    auth users = rsroot
>    secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
> 
> and /etc/rsyncd.secrets contains
> rroot:rroot
> 
> On the computer where the data should be downloaded to do I use:
> rsync -avWHRx 192.168.0.6::tlf /media/backup/latest-tlf/
> 
> After entering the rroot password I get this error:
> @ERROR: auth failed on module tlf
> rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
> main.c(1296) [receiver]
> 
> If I remove the "auth users" and "secrets file" it works.
> 
> Can anyone help me out? =)

Who is rsroot?

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