From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-19 12:45, Pancho wrote:   
   > On 1/17/26 18:20, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > I'm currently looking at moving from backing up data on Samba shares, to   
   > ssh/rsync (due to symlink issues). I fell at the first hurdle of how to   
   > have root access on both local and remote host. Eventually I created a   
   > new remote user account with passwordless sudo, specifically for rsync.   
   > The solution seemed a bit crap. It seemed that such a common usecase   
   > should be better documented, like I was missing something.   
   >   
      
   You can configure to access ssh as root without typing a password. With   
   key pairs, and have an agent remember the phrase for you, or have none.   
      
   > Does rsyncd solve this root access problem? Is it a better/more orthodox   
   > solution.   
      
   Yes, rsyncd does this.   
      
   >   
   > I could potentially use nfs, but I do still use Windows occasionally, so   
   > would like access from Windows, I did briefly consider dual shares using   
   > both Samba and nfs.   
   >   
   >   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
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