Hi, I am running rsync 2.5.2 and have a server running rsync --daemon over ssh.
Now, I read plenty of information on rsync, all the man & all the info on the rsync.samba.org + many other sites that for the most part all say the same with a few exceptions. Did search on google and even look at the marc lists. What I am looking for, unless I do not understand it and please correct me if that's the case, it look like that the module section would be use to limit the access to specific users to a limit part of the files system. Example, if I have: [simple_path_name] path = /rsync/files/here comment = My Very Own Rsync Server uid = nobody gid = nobody read only = no list = yes auth users = username secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets Then I would expect the users ( username) to have access only to my files inside the /rsync/files/here, but with ssh anyway, you have access to all of it and only the user rights on the server will limit you. I don't know under RSH if that's the same or not as I only have servers with SSH, so I didn't test that part out. Also, the hosts allow option if I put it in the global section to limit access to my box, is not recognize either. I can have: hosts allow 192.168.2.2 and obviously this is not a routable IP and it is not my IP either, but I will still have access to the rsync server. So, in short, is there a place that would list the options that are not active under SSH? What I want to do is to limit access to some IP's, or block of IP under SSH and also limit access to a portion of the files system as above. I wouldn't mind if the auth users is not used as SSH is find for that, but I sure would love if I could have limit on the files system and as a bonus if the auth users would recognize the user that sign up via SSH and provide access to the path only. Obviously the secrets file wouldn't be use in the SSH case, but would be use only to limit access per users. So, is that make sense or am I way off in the understanding of the system and the intention behind the module portion. As a last question, this is not a big deal, but I was curious as if anyone would know of an option that would only send out the actual name&path of the files transfer without the final small stats and not show the portion where you get the initial directory list. The reason why I am asking is that if so, I could plug the output of it to MySQL and log the files transfer for audit reason. Many thanks for your help and time! Daniel
