On Thu 21 Jan 2010, Alexander Dahl wrote: > > If I omit or outcomment the 'auth users' line, everyone is allowed to > connect and this is also how I understood the manpage. > > Now if I use the following line, also everyone is allowed to connect: > > auth users = > > So if I don't put any username there, it's like I would have omitted the > line. This is not quite what I expected. This may be senseless but I
Actually it's exactly what I would have expected, not specifying a list is the same as leaving the list empty, which "auth users = " without any names does. I guess it's a matter of point of view :-) > would have expected, the rsync daemon would deny everyone to connect > then, because he would check an empty list against the secrets file. Is > there a way to accomplish this behaviour, denying access? Or maybe a Put a user in there that doesn't exist in the password file? Paul -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html