[clue-tech] rsync ports and daemon

[Angelo Bertolli]

Keith Hellman wrote:

>On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:08:24PM -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
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>>Can someone explain how rsyncd works?  I've turned off the daemon, 
>>nothing is listening on port 873, etc. and yet anyone with shell access 
>>can still use rsync.  Does rsync try to go over ssh by default?  How is 
>>it able to accept connections if it's not running?
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>It seems to use ssh by default, yes.  IIRC it used to use rsh, but it
>is definetely using ssh by default now (at least on my box).  And yes,
>anyone with shell access would be able to rsync - I suspect you could
>turn this ability off by disabling ssh to the users account (check the
>configuration files under /etc/sshd).
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>
So I guess I have to ask:  what's the point of rsync --daemon ?

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