Re: Question on encryption

2001-12-20 Thread Tim Potter
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 04:45:52PM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > > Does running rsync in daemon mode on the remote host preclude the need > > to use SSH from the client? If so, how secure is this versus using rsync > > in non daemon mode with SSH? I have considered building SSH to not use > > encr

Re: Question on encryption

2001-12-20 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 04:21:52PM -0500, George Sinclair wrote: > I am not currently subscribed so please email me below. > > First, my only experience with rsync has been older versions (e.g. > 1.7.x) which did not allow daemon mode, so please bear with me. > > My problem is that I would like

Re: Question on encryption

2001-12-20 Thread tim . conway
You've hit on just what rsyncd is best for. It's not particularly secure, as it uses plaintext (default null) passwords, so someone working for your ISP could sniff your password. the modules (sections of the filesystem tree you expose via rsyncd) are, by default, accessed in a chroot() envi

Re: Question on encryption

2001-12-20 Thread Tim Potter
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 04:21:52PM -0500, George Sinclair wrote: [...] > Does running rsync in daemon mode on the remote host preclude the need > to use SSH from the client? If so, how secure is this versus using rsync > in non daemon mode with SSH? I have considered building SSH to not use > en

Question on encryption

2001-12-20 Thread George Sinclair
I am not currently subscribed so please email me below. First, my only experience with rsync has been older versions (e.g. 1.7.x) which did not allow daemon mode, so please bear with me. My problem is that I would like to mirror large quantities of data on a remote machine to a local one, but I

Re: [Q] multicasting product ?

2001-12-20 Thread HP Wei
>> But, as this send whole files, I'm a little bit irritated about the name >> "mrsync" - wouldn't mrcp or mtftp be better? >Or "mrdist". I agree that mrcp (or mrdist) is perhaps a name that more adequately captures the functionality of this code at this moment. If this

RE: Problems with rsync on Win2K to Solaris

2001-12-20 Thread Ron Kelley
Dave, Thanks for the tips... I configured my Sun box as an rsync server (using the daemon option) and it worked. Looks like I am running to problems with the non-daemon stuff. Thanks again! -Ron -Original Message- From: Dave Dykstra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December

Re: [Q] multicasting product ?

2001-12-20 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 07:45:55AM +0100, Ph. Marek wrote: > >>So my question is: does anyone know of a product which does reliable > >>multicasting? (source available would be preferred) > > > > At our company, we have a mrsync running for a couple of months > > now. mrsync is to transfer file

Re: Problems with rsync on Win2K to Solaris

2001-12-20 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 08:11:43AM -0500, Ron Kelley wrote: > Hi, > > I am having trouble getting rsync (v2.5.0 with the latest version of cygwin) > to work between my Win2K (SP2) and my Solaris 2.6 server. Both machines are > running the same version of rsync. Each time I run rsync, I get the

RE: rsync *Still* Copying All Files?

2001-12-20 Thread Mack, Daemian
> The question is, why does it work? Are you indeed copying > between two NTFS > filesystems, with rsync running under Windows & cygwin on > both sides? I > would have thought that would result in matching timestamps > granularity on > both sides so rsync would always end up comparing the sam