[plug] Access to the IT rsync server

[Benjamin J Keith]

Hey all,

Could all you rsync fiends please try to do what you do again :)  I
noticed your queries to the plug list (I'm a quiet lurker) and passed it
on to the IT sysadmin.  He believes it should now work and appears to be
due to some problem with this version of rsync wanting numerical uid's
rather than usernames in rsyncd.conf (even though the manual says
usernames are also acceptable....strange).  

Let us know if it is still broken (support at it.net.au).

Benjamin J Keith
IT User Support,                                    Informed Technology
Email: support at it.net.au                         Phone: +61 8 9380 4244
http://www.it.net.au/support                     Fax  : +61 8 9380 4354


On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Paul Dean wrote:
> 
> > Hya Harry,
> > 
> > I just tried 'rsync ftp.it.net.au::' and got their archive listing.
> > I guess all working here...
> 
> Listing of rsyncable resources is an unprivileged operation.
> ie its just a read of a data structure in memory.
> Accessing the actual resource is where privileges are invoked.
> ie it actually invokes the requirements at access the resource.
> 
> eg:
> ~$ rsync ftp.it.net.au::
> This is an experimental rsync server, running on Informed Technology's
> anonymous FTP server (ftp.it.net.au).  All files are also available by ftp
> (ftp://ftp.it.net.au/) and http (http://ftp.it.net.au/ftp/).  For more
> information about rsync, visit "http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/".
> Feedback to FTP Administration (ftpadm at it.net.au).
> 
> ftp             Informed Technology's FTP server
> debian          Debian GNU/Linux mirror
> debian-non-US   Debian GNU/Linux (non-US packages) mirror
> debian-www      Debian GNU/Linux web pages mirror
> debian-cd       Debian GNU/Linux cd images mirror
> apache          Apache web and ftp mirror
> openbsd         OpenBSD mirror
> gnu             GNU archives
> ~$ rsync ftp.it.net.au::debian
> This is an experimental rsync server, running on Informed Technology's
> anonymous FTP server (ftp.it.net.au).  All files are also available by ftp
> (ftp://ftp.it.net.au/) and http (http://ftp.it.net.au/ftp/).  For more
> information about rsync, visit "http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/".
> Feedback to FTP Administration (ftpadm at it.net.au).
> 
> @ERROR: invalid uid
> 
> This particular error is when the username supplied in the config file doesn't
> map to a valid UID.
> 
> basically I'd put it down to a typo in the rsyncd.conf file at IT
> 
> Yours Tony
> 
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