uid/gid settings in rsyncd.conf not respected?

[Harry Mangalam]

Thanks for the reply and my apologies - I took the wrong line from the 
log (from a previous set of trials).  The instigating line from the 
rsync receiver (trying to rsync the [minas] module) is:

rsync -ar -vvv rsyncuser at xxx.xxx.uci.edu::minas .
opening tcp connection to xxx.xxx.uci.edu port 873
opening connection using --server --sender -vvvlogDtpr . minas
Password: ******
receiving file list ...
rsync: link_stat "." (in minas) failed: Permission denied (13)
received 0 names
done
recv_file_list done

sent 4 bytes  received 17 bytes  3.82 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at 
main.c(1385) [receiver=2.6.9]
_exit_cleanup(code=0, file=main.c, line=1385): about to call exit(23)


and the response from the log contains:

2009/02/13 09:06:22 [9818] connect from nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn 
(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
2009/02/13 09:06:28 [9818] rsync on minas from 
rsyncuser at xxx.xxx.uci.edu (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
2009/02/13 09:06:28 [9818] building file list
2009/02/13 09:06:28 [9818] rsync: link_stat "." (in minas) failed: 
Permission denied (13)

to keep everything coherent, I changed the rsyncd.conf to narrow it 
down to this dir, rather than the whole [home] module as I wrote 
yesterday.  The above errors were generated with the rsyncd.conf 
below:

# GLOBAL OPTIONS

log file=/var/log/rsyncd
pid file=/var/run/rsyncd.pid
auth users = [rsyncuser]
uid = backuppc
gid = backuppc
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
dont compress = *.gz *.tgz *.zip *.z *.rpm *.deb *.iso *.bz2 *.tbz 
*.exe
max verbosity=2

# MODULE OPTIONS

[minas]
        comment = /home/minas dir 
        path = /home/minas
        use chroot = no
        max connections=1
        lock file = /var/lock/rsyncd
        read only = yes
        list = yes
        uid = backuppc
        gid = backuppc
        exclude from = /etc/rsyncd.exclude
        strict modes = yes
        hosts deny = *
        hosts allow = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
        ignore errors = no
        ignore nonreadable = yes
        transfer logging = yes
        timeout = 600
        refuse options = checksum dry-run
        dont compress = *.gz *.tgz *.zip *.z *.rpm *.deb *.iso *.bz2 
*.tbz



On Friday 13 February 2009, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Thu 12 Feb 2009, Harry Mangalam wrote:
> > However, this does not work for the backup (rsyncd refuses to
> > read the files with an entry in /var/log/rsyncd.log:
> >
> > auth failed on module svn from nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn (
> > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): unauthorized user.
>
> This message would indicate that the rsync connection to the daemon
> is refused; it doesn't get as far as the files themselves. I.e. the
> file permissions, uid / gid / etc aren't in the picture at all.
>
> As you have an "auth users = " line, you're doing something wrong
> while connecting... please show the command lines you run.
>
>
> Paul



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Harry Mangalam - Research Computing, NACS, E2148, Engineering Gateway, 
UC Irvine 92697  949 824-0084(o), 949 285-4487(c)
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