ADMIN: rsync access restricted

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 17:46, Bill Campbell wrote:
...
>> 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.
>
>Which is the way things should be. But rsync 'out of the box' and using
>the command lines I have seen in sxs update scripts use none of this.
>
>I just installed SuSE on a laptop and wanted to rsync to it. That is
>when I discovered that the rsync daemon was not relevant, in favor of
>rshd.

SuSE 8.[12] leaves most services disabled by default, and rsync needs to be
enabled either by manually editing the /etc/xinetd.d/rsync file or with the
yast2 interface.  For that matter, I don't think that SuSE has the normal
berkely ``r'' commands turned on by default either.

Bill
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