After successfull passwordless ssh login, unable to do rsync

[Hendrik Visage]

"rsync rsync://host" is different from "rsync -e ssh path host:/path"

using ssh, you want the 2nd form

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Boniforti Flavio <flavio at piramide.ch> wrote:
> Hello everybody.
>
> I got a strange problem, which I hope to solve with your help.
>
> I'm doing "remote backups" using rsync in an ssh tunnel. In the last
> setup I realized, something is driving me crazy and I can't find *what*
> the problem is.
> I managed to successfully login via ssh in a "passwordless" way (by
> means of RSA-keys).
> After this step is done and I'm logged into the remote host, I can type:
>
> rsync rsync://localhost
>
> and I get the correct reply:
>
> Dati
>
> Whenever I type
>
> rsync rsync://localhost/Dati
>
> I get prompted for the user password. This shouldn't be happening, so
> where do I have to look at?
>
> This is my /etc/rsyncd.conf:
>
> #motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd
> #log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
> pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
> lock file = /var/run/rsync.lock
> use chroot = no
> [Dati]
> path =  /volume1/Dati
> read only = no
> transfer logging = yes
>
> And following is /etc/rsyncd.secrets
>
> root:onOYcgV3xuMZA|1J0vxxUopcg=
>
> Is there anything wrong?
>
> Kind regards,
> Flavio Boniforti
>
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