Thanks for your reply, but that doesn't seem to be the problem I've
tried setting chroot=no with no luck, What does work is commenting out
'auth users' and changing $Conf{RsyncdAuthRequired} to 0.
Peter
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 17:21 +0200, Holger Parplies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Peter McKenna wrote on 23.05.2007 at 02:54:10 [[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd
> Authentication failure]:
> > I keep getting this but I've checked all the settings several times.
> > Got fatal error during xfer (auth failed on module bitt)
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > and this is my rsyncd.conf
> > [bitt]
> > path = /home/bitt
> > chroot = yes
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > auth users = backuppc
> > secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
>
> depending on whether rsyncd reads the secrets file before or after chroot()
> that would be either /etc/rsyncd.secrets or /home/bitt/etc/rsyncd.secrets.
> The rsyncd.conf(5) man page isn't explicit on this.
>
> > I can't see the problem. It works fine when I turn off authentication.
> > Any ideas.
>
> Try moving the file to /home/bitt/etc/rsyncd.secrets. I'm not sure if that
> is the problem, but it's easy enough to try.
>
> Apart from that, what are the permissions of the secrets file? See the
> 'strict modes' entry in the rsyncd.conf man page for details.
>
> Regards,
> Holger
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