On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM Robert Moskowitz via users
<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I *AM* running rsyncd on the target server.
>
> If I provide:
>
> rsync -ah --stats /home/rgm/r/ rsync://rgm@homestor/rgm/r/
>
> I get prompted for the password in the /etc/rsyncd.secrets file, and it
> works.
>
> I now create a local file ~/rsync.pswd with chmod 440, and run:
>
> rsync -ah --password-file=/home/rgm/rsync.pswd --stats /home/rgm/r/
> rsync://rgm@homestor/rgm/r/
>
> it fails with:
>
> @ERROR: auth failed on module rgm
> rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
> main.c(1850) [sender=3.4.1]
>
> rsync.pswd format is:
>
> rgm:password
>
> where password is what is in the server's rsyncd.secrets and what I
> provided to the interactive prompt.
>
> What am I missing here?
Form rsync(1) man page:
--password-file
This option allows you to provide a password in a file for
accessing an rsync daemon. The file must not be world readable. It
should contain just the password as a single line.
Jeff
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