Peter McKenna wrote:
> 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
>
Don't forget to leave a blank line at the end of the password file, and
also check that it is in the correct ascii format (ie, dos or unix
format, ie, CR/LF is correct)
Hope that helps
Adam
> 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.
>>
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