ADMIN: rsync access restricted

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 05:38, Bill Campbell wrote:
...
>> There's no relationship between rsync and the berserkely ``r'' commands
>> beyond the first letter of the name.
>
>I thought (possibly incorrectly): rsync uses rsh on the client side to
>do the actual talking to the server. Try running rsync without rsh
>installed. And it expects rshd on the server side. You 'could' also run
>an rsyncd instead of a rshd on the server side, but us clients would be
>connecting on a different port (873). As we are not doing do, we are
>talking to your rshd. All rather Berkeley.

``rsync -e ssh ...'' uses secure shell for the transport.

We often use rsync in server mode which has its own server for things like
updating djbdns data files on backup DNS servers where each domain master
has its own entry in the rsyncd.conf file restricting access to one
directory, and to the IP address (or CIDR block) of the updating server.

Bill
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