From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 17/01/2026 13:11, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   > "Carlos E.R."  writes:   
   >> On 2026-01-16 15:57, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >>> On 16/01/2026 12:48, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> scp -- wrong. rsync, scp and sftp are all different ways of   
   >>>> transferring files securely over SSH.   
   >>> Are they? even if you run  rsyncd?   
   >   
   > If you tell it to connect to an rsyncd then indeed it does not use SSH.   
   >   
   > Personally I have never bothered with rsyncd...   
   >   
   Ah. I do. None of my data is private that is being stored remotely   
      
   >> AFAIK yes, the transfer happens of the ssh port with ssh type of   
   >> encryption. That is what the article says, so take it with a pinch of   
   >> salt. Variances per distributions. It is true in openSUSE.   
   >   
   > The zdnet article says nothing about what protocol rsync uses.   
   >   
   I think it is straight streaming of bytes and that is it.   
   Locally i have nfs mounts to move data around.   
      
   So I don't really use ssh protocols to copy data at all.   
      
      
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