access denied from rsync server

Mike Daws mike at pienetworks.com
Fri Apr 7 06:53:42 GMT 2006


Have you checked the permissions on your /etc/rsyncd.secrets file?
Unless you turn off "strict modes", this must not be readable by
"other".

On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 03:22 +0200, Martin Jeppesen wrote:
> > Who is rsroot?
> 
> That was a typo in the email. Thanks =) That should have been rroot.
> 
> Even if I try with rroot@
> rsync -avWHRx rroot at 192.168.0.6::tlf /media/backup/latest-tlf/
> 
> do I get:
> @ERROR: auth failed on module tlf
> rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
> main.c(1296) [receiver]
> 
> When I look in /var/run there are there no rsyncd.log or rsyncd.lock.
> Could that be a problem?
> 
> Martin



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