Hi Juergen,

Juergen Harms wrote:
> Things start to run smoothly, backupPC is really nice to install and 
> make running.
> 
> But how do I reasonably proceed with password protection for client 
> rsyncd? To get started, I presently use $Conf{RsyncdAuthRequired} = 0; - 
> works nicely, but not protection.
> 
> As an alternative I see that I can set that variable to 1, but then I 
> must store the password in the config.pl file - which needs to be world 
> readable. Not a good solution either - are there other alternatives?

Instead of using the rsyncd authentication, you can connect over a ssh 
tunnel that then uses the rsyncd on the client. You then limit rsyncd to 
only accept local connections. That way you have ssh authentication as 
well as encrypted transfer. See 
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html for one way to 
do this.

Cody

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