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Rsync daemon authentication - rsync Tutorial
From the course: Learning Rsync
Rsync daemon authentication
- [Instructor] While it can be useful to have a free for all Rsync server on our network, there's also good reasons to restrict access to an Rsync server. To do this, we can add some authentication that the user needs to pass before they're able to send or receive files using our Rsync daemon. I want to be clear though, that this layer of security is only authentication. The contents of the transfer aren't encrypted or anything like that. To set up authentication for Rsync, we'll modify our rsyncd.conf file to define which users and groups are allowed access to a module or to the server. And we'll also create a file that lists the passwords for each of our users and groups. Here in my server, I'll start in the etc/rsyncd.conf file and I'll go into my files module. First, I'll remove the read only equals no directive here to make this module read only by default. Then, I'll add the parameter off users and I'll make a comma…
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