The password file has to be on both sides.
try
--password-file=/etc/rsyncd.secure
on your command line.
--Mike
At 02:21 PM 11/3/00 -0500, Scott Gribben wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am working on the initial implementation of rsync here and am having
>trouble getting it to use the "secrets file" (not prompt for password).
>
>I have the daemon running on the host (rsync -daemon as root), have an
>/etc/rsyncd.conf file with 1 module in it, inside the module [Test] I have
>"secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secure" which has username:password as the only
>contents and is file mode 600 owned by root. Rsyncd.conf also has some
>stadard entries in it outside the module.
>
>When I connect up with username, using
>rsync -r ./* username@hostname::Test <mailto:username@hostname::Test>
>
>It still prompts me for the password.
>
>I am not real comfortable with the env var (too open) and am trying to get
>it to go this way.
>
>Any ideas what I am missing here?
>
>PS - this is Solaris to Solaris
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