Bug#519398: rsync: 'insecure -e option not allowed' after upgrade to lenny

[Bernard Elbourn]

Package: rsync
Version: 2.6.9-2etch2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Sanitised expect log from backup script...

spawn /usr/bin/rsync -bv x...@www.www:~/dbbackup/* /home/data/xx/dbbackup/
Password: 

insecure -e option not allowed.
This account is restricted by rssh.
Allowed commands: sftp rsync

If you believe this is in error, please contact your system administrator.

*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x08051bc8 ***
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(635) 
[receiver=3.0.3]
total 5172

note please that the -e option is not used! 

My workround is to revert to rsync from oldstable:

spawn /usr/bin/rsync -bv x...@www:~/dbbackup/* /home/data/xxx/dbbackup/
Password: 
xxx.yyy

sent 9030 bytes  received 709948 bytes  287591.20 bytes/sec
total size is 1972930  speedup is 2.74


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages rsync depends on:
ii  libacl1   2.2.47-2   Access control list shared library
ii  libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpopt0  1.14-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  lsb-base  3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

rsync recommends no packages.

Versions of packages rsync suggests:
ii  openssh-client1:5.1p1-5  secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii  openssh-server1:5.1p1-5  secure shell server, an rshd repla

-- no debconf information



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Bug#519398: rsync: 'insecure -e option not allowed' after upgrade to lenny

[Berni Elbourn]

Paul Slootman wrote:


Thousands (hunderds of thousands? Millions? ;-) of people are using it just 
fine,
it's just that _you_ ran into a problem. By that criterium almost every
bug should be grave.


:-) For me and the others connecting to systems we have no control this 
bug makes the rsync version in Lenny unusable.



This is not a bug in rsync, but a problem with rssh. See:

http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2008-March/020273.html
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2008-March/020274.html



Always a tricky situation. I will have to stick with the version from 
Etch for now.


Thanks for your time and expertise!

Berni



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Bug#519398: closed by Paul Slootman p...@debian.org (reply to 519...@bugs.debian.org) (Re: Bug#519398: rsync: 'insecure -e option not allowed' after upgrade to lenny)

[Berni Elbourn]

Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:

This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
which was filed against the rsync package:

#519398: rsync: 'insecure -e option not allowed' after upgrade to lenny


Message arrived out of sync. Must be pun somewhere in there.

Yep - Its right to close this. Hopefully, the etch version will get 
others out of the same crisis if they search google.


I very much appreciate all the time you put into Debian!

Berni



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