"@ERROR: auth failed on module"

[Nick Lindsell]

Greetings list,
I've been banging my head against this for a few days now, so finally
I throw myself upon your tender mercies.

I had rsync working fine to make offsite backups via an IPSEC VPN
over an ADSL connection - until the remote raid5 server went down. It was rebuilt
with RedHat 8 and since then I have not been able to rsync to it. Both ends
have vanilla rsync-2.5.5 installed. Machine "moby" is the remote (i.e destination)
and "core" is the local (source) machine on RedHat 7.3 - eventually I will sync the
entire filesystem of core to moby::/home/nexnix as we did before.

The gory details:-

[root@moby /]# ls -l /etc/rsync*.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 550 Dec 10 16:14 /etc/rsyncd.conf
-rw------- 1 root root 7 Dec 11 12:07 /etc/rsyncd.secrets

[root@moby /]# cat /etc/rsyncd.secrets
passwd

[root@moby /]# cat /etc/rsyncd.conf
uid=root
gid=root
max connections = 1
hosts allow = 217.207.227.227/32 192.168.100.0/24
hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
[nexnix]
path = /home/nexnix
comment = NexNix offsite backup
auth users = nexnix
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
read only = no
strict modes = false
[tmp]
path = /home/tmp
comment = TMP
auth users = nexnix
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
read only = no
strict modes = false

[root@moby /]# ls -ld /home/tmp
drwxrwxrwx 2 nexnix nexnix 4096 Dec 3 11:44 /home/tmp

[root@moby /]# cat /etc/xinetd.d/rsync
# default: off
# description: The rsync server is a good addition to am ftp server, as it \
# allows crc checksumming etc.
service rsync
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/local/bin/rsync
server_args = -vv --daemon
log_on_failure += USERID
}
[root@moby /]#


[root@core /]# ls -l /etc/rsync*.*
-rw------- 1 root root 7 Dec 11 11:05 /etc/rsyncd.secrets

[root@core /]# cat /etc/rsyncd.secrets
passwd

[root@core /]# /usr/local/bin/rsync nexnix@moby::
nexnix NexNix offsite backup
tmp TMP

[root@core /]# /usr/local/bin/rsync --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync --password-file=/etc/rsyncd.secrets -vv /tmp nexnix@moby::TMP
opening tcp connection to moby port 873
@ERROR: auth failed on module tmp
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (87 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150)
[root@core /]#

[root@moby /]# tail /var/log/messages
Dec 11 12:07:51 moby rsyncd[16370]: auth failed on module tmp from core (192.168.100.2)
Dec 11 12:22:49 moby rsyncd[16424]: auth failed on module tmp from core (192.168.100.2)
Dec 11 12:24:34 moby rsyncd[16431]: auth failed on module tmp from core (192.168.100.2)
Dec 11 12:25:03 moby rsyncd[16439]: auth failed on module tmp from core (192.168.100.2)
Dec 11 12:26:47 moby rsyncd[16444]: auth failed on module tmp from core (192.168.100.2)
[root@moby /]#

[root@core /]# bugger
bash: bugger: command not found
[root@core /]#



Can anyone spot the obvious mistake and put me out of my misery??

tia
nick@nexnix

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